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
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
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.
Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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.