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
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.