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
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.