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
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The Governor was strong upon/ The Regulations Act:/ The Doctor said that Death was but/ A scientific fact:/ And twice a day the Chaplain called,/ And left a little tract.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich,
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.