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
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.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it
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.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.