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
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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!
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never
All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long
All religious organizations exist to sell themselves to the rich.