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
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
A mask tells us more than a face.
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
To define is to limit.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Some people always know the price, but not the value
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.