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.
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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.
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.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,