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 love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
I'm too old to know everything
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.