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
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.