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
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
I'm not nearly young enough to know everything
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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.