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
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
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