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
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.