Oscar Wilde was a famous Irish writer, poet, playwright, novelist and convicted criminal. He is best known for his quotable quotes or epigrams and for writing The Picture of Dorian Gray novel. Famous Oscar Wilde publications include “The Critic as Artist”, “The Decay of Lying”, “The Duchess of Padua”, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”, “An Ideal Husband”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, and “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
Mini biography: Born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde on the 16th of October, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. His mother was Jane Elgee and his father William Robert Wills Wilde was an ophthalmologic surgeon. Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two children: Cyril and Vyvyan Holland. Wilde was also gay and had a relationship with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry, Alfred Douglas. A conflict with John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry led to Oscar Wilde spending two years in prison for sodomy and gross indecency. The writer died on the 30th of November, 1900 in Paris, France at the age of 46. Oscar Wilde is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
List of Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. Oscar Wilde
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror. Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature’s lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
What is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde
For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt. Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Portrait – Photograph
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