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
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
You are Beautiful when you are happy
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to lifethat nothing else can bring.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour
The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.