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
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.