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
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.