A quote by Oscar Wilde (2024)

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What is Oscar Wilde's most famous quote? ›

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world.

While the pursuit of beauty and happiness in life is always Wilde's ideal, he also implies that the consequences of one's actions must be thought out and the impact of one's decisions, beyond oneself, must also be carefully considered before acting on any impulse.

"Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” -Oscar Wilde

As he was famous for his witticisms, it's tempting to accept this quip as his last words. But while Wilde did come up with this particular bon mot — what he actually said was, “This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.

A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. You will always be fond of me.

Answer and Explanation: Yes, it seems that Oscar Wilde believed in God, though he did not subscribe to the belief that humans should believe that God set up morals that all humans must uniformly follow.

What did Oscar Wilde say about marriage? ›

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Along with Critchley (who did not retrospectively diagnose a cholesteatoma in his report), all three doctors concurred that it was an out of control middle ear infection that killed Oscar Wilde. Oscar's ear infection and discharge appeared to resolve upon his release from prison.

Oscar Wilde's literary reputation rests largely on his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and on his masterful comedies of manners Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was also known for his wit, his flamboyance, and his trials and jail sentence for hom*osexual acts.

Oscar Wilde was a proponent of Aestheticism's idea that art is for art's sake. He was also critical of its pitfalls, as evidenced in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

After 1895, when Wilde was convicted of the charge of "gross indecency" and imprisoned, Constance changed her surname, and those of their sons, to Holland. She forced Wilde to give up his parental rights. She moved with the boys to Switzerland and enrolled them in an English-speaking boarding school in Germany.

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France

Oscar Wilde / Place of burial

Oscar Wilde's literary reputation rests largely on his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and on his masterful comedies of manners Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was also known for his wit, his flamboyance, and his trials and jail sentence for hom*osexual acts.