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
To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.
History is only gossip.
There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.