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 scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it
Always keep love in your heart.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips