Oscar Wilde
Poet
| Date of Birth | : | 16 Oct, 1854 |
| Date of Death | : | 30 Nov, 1900 |
| Place of Birth | : | Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | : | Poet, Novelist, Children's Writer |
| Nationality | : | Irish |
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Nothing worth learning can ever be taught.
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
