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 only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.