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
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
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
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.
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures