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
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
All great ideas are dangerous.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.