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
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.