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
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
To be premature is to be perfect
What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.