The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde: Inspiring and Amazing Quotes from an Icon

By Oscar Wilde

The Wit And Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

This is the world’s best Oscar Wilde quote collection, including the wittiest remarks from the inimitable English playwright and personality.

Plus a short biography of the amazing man’s unique, unbelievable and sometimes tragic life.

Wilde is known for his amazing wit, his biting satire, and his sharp sense of humor, so get this quote collection right now and start enjoying his words like never before!

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Imagination Books
• Release date: Sep 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781928458500

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin University Magazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

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THE WIT AND WISDOM OF OSCAR WILDE – OSCAR WILDE QUOTES ULTIMATE COLLECTION

Editor Gabrielle Moore

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THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.

After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day, known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill. Themes in his writings include decadence, duplicity, beauty and biting satire.

Wilde is also known for his famous arrest and imprisonment, for the crime (at that time) of homosexuality. After many, he was convicted and sentenced to 2 years hard labor for his crime.

During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure.

Wilde’s life and work remain some of the most popular subjects in English literature and the themes of his work echo as strongly today as they did in his own time