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 longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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.
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never