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
Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich,
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.