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
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Things last either too long, or not long enough,