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
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.