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
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
All art is quite useless.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!