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
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.