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
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
