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
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.