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
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray
We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Punctuality is the thief of time
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.