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
All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Credit is a young man's capital.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.