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
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion. . .
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
To be popular I must be mediocre.