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
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
No gentleman ever has any money.
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.