HE

He’s arrogant
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works”

He liked to tell you the awful truth
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much”

Cynical might be his middle name
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months”
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends”

He had distinctive taste of relationships
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies”

But surely he knew about life
“Life is too important to be taken seriously”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”

And he’s Wilde. Oscar Wilde
“I have nothing to declare except my genius”