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.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.