Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a playwright, novelist, poet and critic of the late Victorian era and one of the greatest celebrities of his time. He is famous for his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (his only novel), his long poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol and off course his humorous and witty one-line quotations.
Oscar Wilde - playwright, novelist, poet
A brief introduction of Oscar Wilde
- Date of Birth: 16 October 1854, Dublin, Ireland
- Date of Death: 30 November 1900, Paris, France. (acute meningitis, following an ear infection)
- Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
- Height: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
- Nationality: Irish
- Best Known Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol...
- Influences: Socrates, Plato, Swinburne, Walter Pater, Ruskin, Whitman Poe
Oscar Wilde famous Quotes
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
"Life is too much important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
"Life is too much important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde Online
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Apr 2, 2011 @ 6:31 pm | delete
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA+++++++++++++++. Nice Squid Lens. Chris
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Sep 29, 2009 @ 9:37 am | delete
- I saw an interesting article about the new movie they've released, based on The Picture of Dorian Grey. You can read about it here: http://infloox.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/the-picture-of-dorian-grey-movie-adaptation/
Also heard that his tomb was defaced by vandals... what a shame.
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