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
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Life is too short to learn German
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.