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
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.