Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his...
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.