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
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
Time is a waste of money.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Wisdom comes with winters
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.