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 adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
Bad manners make a journalist.
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.