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
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.