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
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.