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
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim