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
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.