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
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
The weather still continues charming.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
People are either charming or tedious.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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,