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
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property
How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.