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
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
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.
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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.
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.