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
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
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,