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
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Men become old, but they never become good.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.