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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Who, being loved, is poor?
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.