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
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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?
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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.
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.