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
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.