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
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.