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
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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.