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
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.
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.
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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