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
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.