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
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting
Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them...