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
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
What the hell is an oboe?
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.