523 Famous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Also Known As:
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Oscar. Wilde
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About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising 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. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education
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The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Life
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The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.
Life
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Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
Love
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