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
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
You know what a woman's curiosity is.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.