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
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Sphinxes without secrets.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.