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 man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Everything popular is wrong.
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.