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
I can resist everything except temptation.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
True friends stab you in the front.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Everything that is popular is wrong.