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
Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
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,