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
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Talent borrows, genius steals!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.