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
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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.