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.
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude