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
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Youth is the only thing worth having.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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,