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
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.