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
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.