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
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.