Oscar Wilde Quotes


It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.


Citations

Wilde, Oscar. Testimony. Regina v. Wilde. Central Criminal Court, London, 30 Apr. 1895.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
  • Born: October 16, 1854
  • Died: November 30, 1900
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Author, Poet, Playwright

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.