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
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich,
The Governor was strong upon/ The Regulations Act:/ The Doctor said that Death was but/ A scientific fact:/ And twice a day the Chaplain called,/ And left a little tract.
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.