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.
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.