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 that is worth knowing can be taught.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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.