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
Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative
To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable