This book contains 1000 of the very best great Oscar Wilde quotes.
Oscar Wilde was the toast of Victorian London. Not only was he the most popular playwright of West End theatreland, but he was also a colorful and flamboyant man about London, welcomed everywhere for his amusing speeches and lectures. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is one of the iconic novels of the late 19th century. His major plays The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband are regularly performed, and new films and television versions appear annually.
Wilde was born in Ireland and relocated to London in early adulthood, He is often referred to as an English writer, and these days he is regarded as a national treasure in both countries. Shakespeare apart, he is, without doubt, the most quoted of writers in the English language. He had a unique mind - one that couldn't help applying a cynical tongue to just about everything he saw and heard. And always amusing, while being thought-provoking.
Even on his deathbed, he couldn't help it. As his life was ending in a cheap bed in a rundown French pension the poverty-stricken Wilde, according to friends attending his death, looked around the shabby room, and said: 'My wallpaper and I are in a battle to the death, one or the other must go.'
Many of Oscar Wilde's observations, taken from his writing and his reported conversations and speeches, have become common currency in the modern English language. Such quotes as, 'I can resist everything except temptation'; 'Work is the curse of the drinking class'; 'There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', and the more sober, 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars', have become common sayings.
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