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
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.