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
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
God and other artists are always a little obscure.....
I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
Always be a little unexpected.