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 thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Only the shallow know themselves.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.