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
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.
True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.