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
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.