Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist".
"He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit . . ."
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
"I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering."
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
