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 of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching
Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
I live in fear of not being misunderstood
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.