Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
~ 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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
~ Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
~ Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
~ Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
~ Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
~ Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~ Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
~ Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
~ 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
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
~ Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are
really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
~ Oscar Wilde
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~ Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
~ Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
~ Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
~ 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
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden
when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~ Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. He began his literary career as a novelist.
Later he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage.
Shaw's main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938),
for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion, respectively. Shaw wanted to refuse his
Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors, but later accepted it.
( 1856-1950)
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~ Mark Twain
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
~ Henry Ford
