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
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
In married life three is company and two none.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.