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
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.