Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.
He is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era and is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
I picked out some of my favourite quotes of his after reading “Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast” which is a collection of witty quotes and observations by Oscar Wilde
“The most terrible thing about imprisonment is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone.”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”
“In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression.”
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