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 the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
I walk the world in wonder.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.