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
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable
Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never
All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long
All religious organizations exist to sell themselves to the rich.
The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.