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
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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.
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.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.