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.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.