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
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.