Oscar Wilde's quote

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.


To define is to limit. The Picture of Dorian Gray
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde