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About Oscar Wilde
Irish author, poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright of the late 19th century. He became one of London’s most popular and influential dramatists in the early 1890s, and is closely associated with the Aestheticism movement. He is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his epigrams, plays and children’s stories. His writing often combines wit, style and pointed observation, and his reputation is also shaped by his 1895 criminal conviction for gross indecency and for practising homosexual acts.
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- “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dic…”Oscar Wilde
- “Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see…”Oscar Wilde
- “The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”Oscar Wilde
- “Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoi…”Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness: more sayings
- “You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like…”Joseph P. Kauffman
- “Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him…”Alfred Tennyson
- “You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I…”Howard Jacobson
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Books by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
His only novel, full of quotable lines.