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
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.