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
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.