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
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.