Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.