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
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
One should play fairly when one has the winning cards
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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.