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
If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times
Art should never be popular.
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Life is too short to be in a hurry.
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.
A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.
Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.
To be popular I must be mediocre.
When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.
Nothing worth learning can ever be taught