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
Who, being loved, is poor?
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
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.