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
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Divorces are made in heaven.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.