Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

Poet, Irish Author and Playwright

Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

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Oscar Wilde Quote - A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Free

Oscar Wilde

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Oscar Wilde Quote - You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Free

Oscar Wilde

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Free

Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde Quote - It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Free

Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Free

Oscar Wilde

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Oscar Wilde Quote - When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Free

Oscar Wilde

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde Quote - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Free

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. Free

Oscar Wilde

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Oscar Wilde Quote - We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Free

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Free

Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Free

Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde Quote - A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. Free

Oscar Wilde

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. Free

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Free

Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. Free

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

Notable Works

Oscar Wilde’s brilliant literary legacy is anchored by his masterpiece novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which explores aestheticism, morality, and double lives. He achieved massive theatrical success with sharp, satirical society comedies, most notably his witty masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Additionally, his tragic poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol and his moving fairy tale The Happy Prince showcase his remarkable emotional depth and mastery over diverse literary forms.

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