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
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The Governor was strong upon/ The Regulations Act:/ The Doctor said that Death was but/ A scientific fact:/ And twice a day the Chaplain called,/ And left a little tract.
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence
A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.