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
To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.