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
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
Education is an admirable thing.
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.