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 tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property
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.