10 witty quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is renowned for his works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as his brilliant wit, flamboyant style and his uninhibited passion. His writings though limited are powerful and have inspired generations.
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Born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England, known for his brilliant wit and flamboyant style.
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Son of an acclaimed knighted doctor William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee, a skilled linguistic poet, he went on to love Greek and Roman studies at Portora Royal School at Enniskillen.
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After getting the classics student prize for two consecutive years, Wilde was awarded the Royal School Scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin.
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In 1874, on graduation Wilde received the Berkeley Gold Medal as Trinity's best student in Greek, as well as the Demyship scholarship for further study at Magdalen College in Oxford where he won the college’s Foundation Scholarship, highest under graduate honor.
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Being a bright and bookish child Wilde always excelled in academics, then in 1878, the year of his graduation, his poem "Ravenna" won the Newdigate Prize for the best English verse composition by an Oxford undergraduate.
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After graduating he focused on writing poetry, publishing his first collection, Poems, in 1881 which established his as an Up-Coming writer and lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism.
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In 1882, Wilde traveled from London to New York City to embark on an American lecture tour, for which he delivered a staggering 140 lectures in just nine months where he met the leading literary figures like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman. Wilde admired Whitman and wrote, "There is no one in this wide great world of America whom I love and honor so much.''
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Wilde established himself as a leading proponent of the aesthetic movement, a theory of art and literature that emphasized the pursuit of beauty. Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity in 1888, while he was still the editor of Lady's World. Nearly all of his great literary works was produced then.
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of children's stories was published in 1888 while he published Intentions, an essay and his first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1891.
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Wilde died of meningitis on November 30, 1900 at the age of 46 after having suffered imprisonment for homosexuality that left him deplete and broke.
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