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
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.