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.
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.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.