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
Things last either too long, or not long enough,
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
Genius lasts longer than beauty