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
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.