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
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.