Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist".
"He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt."
"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
