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 I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.