Oscar Wilde Quotes


To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.


Citations

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ward, Lock and Co., 1891.

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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.