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 Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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.