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
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
God and other artists are always a little obscure.....
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
The final mystery is oneself.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.