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Bookmark or Share- TOP 25 QUOTES BY OSCAR WILDE (of 1859) | A-Z QuotesPleasure. 356 Copy quote. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Oscar Wilde. Glasses, Optimism, Needs. 109 Copy quote. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. Oscar Wilde. Funny, Life, Happiness.
- Oscar Wilde | Poetry FoundationHis lasting literary fame resides primarily in four or five plays, one of which—The Importance of Being Earnest, first produced in 1895—is a classic of comic theater. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), is flawed as a work of art, but gained him much of his notoriety.
- Oscar Wilde | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaOscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
- Oscar Wilde Facts | BritannicaFacts. Did You Know? After he has served his prison sentence, Wilde spent three years roaming Europe with the fabricated name Sebastian Melmoth before dying, penniless, at a hotel in Paris. Wildeu0019s friends pushed him to escape to France, which had decriminalized homosexuality as part of the French Revolution.
- Oscar Wilde Overview and Analysis | TheArtStory1 of 13. Summary of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde emerged in late nineteenth century London as the living embodiment of the Aesthetic movement. He won fame as a dramatist, poet and novelist whose ideas on art, beauty and personal freedom formed a formidable challenge to Victorian puritanicalism.
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