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
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.