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
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Duty is what one expects from others.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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,