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
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures
I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately