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
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
All art is quite useless.