Quote

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Notorious
Famous
Somehow

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
Oscar Wilde
Image
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Oscar Wilde
Image
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Most people are other people.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Oscar Wilde