These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.Ĭonsistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. I can believe anything as long as it is incredible. The good end happily, the bad unhappily – that is what fiction means. Most of the quotes shown here are taken from Wilde’s plays, novels, essays and letters. He died in poverty on 30th November 1900. He went on to write two of his greatest works – The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis. The scandal destroyed his career but not his creativity.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance Homosexuality was illegal in those days and Wilde was eventually prosecuted and jailed for two years. He was married and had two children but he fell from grace in his 40s when he began a homosexual affair with a young man called Lord Alfred Douglas. He went on to become one of the most successful dramatists of his day with classic comedies of manners like The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere’s Fan. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16th October 1854 in Dublin. His work remains fresh today and his plays are still being produced all over the world. His clever wordplay made him the master of the one liner with gems like “I can resist everything except for temptation”.īut there was more to Wilde than witty quips he was also one of the greatest writers of the 19th century. Oscar WildeOscar Wilde is one of the most quoted writers ever to come out of Ireland – or any other country for that matter.
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