Oscar Wilde

also died in paris

Frédéric Chopin

art

All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

birth

Oscar Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College), the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish couple: Jane, née Elgee, and Sir William Wilde.

born in

death

Wilde died of meningitis on 30 November 1900.

deathbed

experience

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Mr. Dumby, Act III.

novel

The Picture of Dorian Gray

portrait

random

war

signature

stars

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

tags

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875

Wikipedia

Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia) 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 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.