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
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.