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
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.