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
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
I live in fear of not being misunderstood
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.