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
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.
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.