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
Nature is always behind the age
All criticism is a form of autobiography
Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.