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
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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.
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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.
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.