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
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
Any place you love is the world to you.
The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.