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 know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times
No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.