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
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.