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
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.