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
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.