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 only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,