Who is Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) 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 the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became ...
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Oscar Wilde Poems

• Réveillon Du Nouvel An
  Le ciel est couvert clignotant rouge,
  Les brumes et les ombres qui circulent fuient,
  L'aube se lève de la mer
  Comme une dame blanche dans son lit. ...
• Silvesternacht
  Der Himmel ist rot blinkend bedeckt,
  Die Nebel und zirkulierenden Schatten fliehen,
  Die Morgendämmerung steigt aus dem Meer,
  Wie eine weiße Dame in ihrem Bett. ...
• La Nochebuena
  EL cielo está cubierto de rojo intermitente,
  Las nieblas y sombras circulantes huyen,
  El amanecer se levanta del mar,
  Como una dama blanca de su cama. ...
• Pan
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  O goat-foot God of Arcady!
  This modern world is grey and old, ...
• The Master
  Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,
  having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the hill into
  the valley. For he had business in his own home.
  ...

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Oscar Wilde Quotes

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
• Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
• The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...

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Comments about Oscar Wilde

• Shepdf: haven’t seen an oscar wilde one yet. my wife and i just happened into a restaurant near our hotel on the recommendation of the concierge. this was our water bottle. nice place, nothing too fancy, but a good dinner.
• Leticiaratliff8: “i am so clever that sometimes i don’t understand a single word of what i am saying.” – oscar wilde
• Mwmts: "life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -oscar wilde
• Googoo2345844: 16. "life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -oscar wilde
• Hamodsmartff715: 16. "life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -oscar wilde

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