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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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none.

Oscar Wilde

No good deed goes unpunished.

Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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