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
Always be a little unexpected.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
It was only in the theatre that I lived
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
Music is the perfect type of art.