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 in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.