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
memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
Most people are boring and stupid.
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.