About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) 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.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman