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
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.