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
History is merely gossip
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.