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
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
The weather still continues charming.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.