Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
- To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
- To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.