Wilde Oscar
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". The scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time.
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(1856—1900), Irish author
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
(1856—1900), The Wit & Humor of Oscar Wilde, 1959, edited by Alvin Redman
It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.
(1856—1900), Irish author
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
(1856—1900), Irish playwright
Woman's first duty is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
(1856—1900), Irish author
A man can live three days without water but not one without poetry.