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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 and plays.
In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry - Poems that received mixed reviews by critics. He worked as an art reviewer (1881), lectured in the United States and Canada (1882), and lived in Paris (1883). He also lectured in Britain and Ireland (1883 - 1884). In 1888, he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in 1891 and received quite a negative response. Wilde's greatest talent was for writing plays. His first successful play, Lady Windermere's Fan, opened in February 1892. He produced a string of extremely popular comedies including A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). These plays were all highly acclaimed and firmly established Oscar as a playwright.
he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, revealing his concern for inhumane prison conditions. He spent the rest of his life wandering Europe, staying with friends and living in cheap hotels. He died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel.
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Famous Quotes Oscar Wilde (Quotes in Video) :
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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About :
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 and plays.
In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry - Poems that received mixed reviews by critics. He worked as an art reviewer (1881), lectured in the United States and Canada (1882), and lived in Paris (1883). He also lectured in Britain and Ireland (1883 - 1884). In 1888, he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in 1891 and received quite a negative response. Wilde's greatest talent was for writing plays. His first successful play, Lady Windermere's Fan, opened in February 1892. He produced a string of extremely popular comedies including A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). These plays were all highly acclaimed and firmly established Oscar as a playwright.
he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, revealing his concern for inhumane prison conditions. He spent the rest of his life wandering Europe, staying with friends and living in cheap hotels. He died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel.
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Famous Quotes Oscar Wilde (Quotes in Video) :
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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E. E. Cummings Quotes
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T. S. Eliot Quotes
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