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
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
Biography lends to death a new terror.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.