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
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
The secret of life is in art.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
Everything popular is wrong.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.