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
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.