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
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.