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 difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.