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.
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
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.