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
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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 only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her