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 writer
If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.
(1856—1900), Irish writer
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had been merely detected.
(1856—1900), Irish writer
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for me.
(1856—1900), Irish writer
When good Americans die, they go to Paris; when bad Americans die they go to America.
(1856—1900), The Wit & Humor of Oscar Wilde, 1959, edited by Alvin Redman
It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never commited, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one had been ignorant, and […]