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
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
I'm too old to know everything
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
I'm not nearly young enough to know everything
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.