About Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 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.

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

Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

Author Bio

NameOscar Wilde
DescriptionIrish writer and poet
AliasesOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
BornOctober 16, 1854
DiedNovember 30, 1900
CountryUnited Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
ProfessionPoet; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Novelist
WorksThe Importance Of Being Earnest; The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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About Oscar Wilde:

Author Bio