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
A kiss may ruin a human life
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.