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 - Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Free

Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde Quote - The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. Free

Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. Free

Oscar Wilde

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Oscar Wilde Quote - After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. Free

Oscar Wilde

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Oscar Wilde Quote - One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. Free

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I am not young enough to know everything. Free

Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties. Free

Oscar Wilde

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. Free

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

Oscar Wilde Quote - To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Free

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Free

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde Quote - The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. Free

Oscar Wilde

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Oscar Wilde Quote - There is no sin except stupidity. Free

Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. Free

Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. Free

Oscar Wilde

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. Free

Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. Free

Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Oscar Wilde Quote - The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. Free

Oscar Wilde

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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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