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 not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
What you read when you don't have to...
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
The world belongs to the discontented.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.