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
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude