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
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.