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
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
Industry is the root of all ugliness.
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
I'm not nearly young enough to know everything
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Any place that we love becomes our world.