Literature - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

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Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

oscar wilde:

in old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Story - The Model Millionaire By Oscar Wilde

The Model Millionaire:

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised.

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Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.