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
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures