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
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.