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
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.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.