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
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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.