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
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.