Oscar Wilde Quotes
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893, p. 115.
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Many people would say the same about the present period.
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.