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
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.