Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet.
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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.
The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
The dinner table was Wilde's event and made him the greatest talker of his time…
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
Oscar Wilde did not dive very deeply below the surface of human nature, but found, to a certain extent rightly, that there is more on the surface of life than is seen by the eyes of most people.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.