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 pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.