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
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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,