The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. Be yourself everyone else is already taken. One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. His words will forever remain in the hearts of not only those who followed his work, but anyone who’s in need of a short, sharp lesson surrounding what matters most.ġ. With undeniable passion towards love, beauty and art, Wilde’s work was driven by the values and experiences he held with him until his final breath. It brought a tragic end for the artist who believed that style in life as well as in art was of utmost importance. He sadly spent his final years impoverished and in exile, before dying in 1900 of meningitis. Wilde’s personal life was tried in the public when he was imprisoned for a homosexual relationship. His most famous works include the poem The Ballad of the Reading Gaol, the play The Importance of Being Earnest and comic masterpiece Lady Windermere’s Fan. He wrote nine plays throughout his life, along with his book, numerous poems, short stories and essays. The four society comedies he wrote soon after Salome made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. Wilde’s first play Salome, was written in 1891 although it was refused a licence for England due to absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects. He progressed to dialogues and essays towards the end of the 1890’s and released his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde tried various literary styles, starting with poetry and journalism. He moved to London after his studies and immersed himself into fashionable culture and social circles. Through the influence of his tutors, Wilde was drawn to the emerging philosophy of aestheticism. At university, Wilde read traditional Greats and was quickly established as an exceptional classicist at both Trinity College in Dublin and at Oxford.
His creativity was evident throughout his upbringing as impressed peers and teachers with humorous and inventive stories during school. Oscar Wilde was one of London’s most popular playwrights with considerable contribution towards English literature, and simple creation of inspiring words surrounding, love, beauty and art.īorn in Ireland in 1854, Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. His extravagant lifestyle drew as much attention as his work with flamboyant style and an infamous imprisonment he will forever be remembered for.
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