Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, p. 138.
This idea which would become seriously considered in the 1960s, was a totally radical one at the beginning of the 19th century. With people living so much longer, the idea is no longer radical but has become another polarizing issue in the political culture wars. See {627925} where Shelley goes even further.
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.