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
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.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
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.
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.