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
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. nothing ages like happiness.
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.