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 secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them...
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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