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
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Time is a waste of money.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,