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
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion. . .
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.