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
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
America is one long expectoration.
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
We women adore failures. They lean on us.
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.