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
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
The best revenge is to live well.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.