To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar WildeOW
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer and playwright, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. He was as known for his wit in conversation as for his work. In 1895 he was sentenced to two years' hard labour for homosexuality, which broke him; he died in Paris three years after his release.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar WildeExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar WildeThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar WildeKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar WildeSuccess is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar WildeYou can never be overdressed or overeducated.
- Oscar Wilde