Wilde Oscar
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". The scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time.
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(1856—1900), Irish author
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
(1856—1900), Irish author
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
(1856—1900), Irish author
Of course, America had often been discovered before, but it had always been hushed up.
(1856—1900), Irish author
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
(1856—1900), Irish author
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
(1856—1900), Irish author
The muddle of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.