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
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.