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 soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. nothing ages like happiness.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.