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
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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.