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
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.