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
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.