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
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.