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
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.