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 is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,