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
Circumstances should never alter principles!
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
Art should never be popular.