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
I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
Progress is the realization of utopia.
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Be yourself, because others are already taken.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.