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 pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
Youth is the only thing worth having.
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Truth is independent of facts always.
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
Every thing to be true must become a religion.