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.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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.
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.