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
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
And if it feels good... Feel it!
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.