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, 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.
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.
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.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived