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
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.