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
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
Art persists, it timelessly continues.
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.