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 am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
A kiss may ruin a human life
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.