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 nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.