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
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. nothing ages like happiness.
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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.
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.