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 luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies
We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.