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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is…
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Born 16 October 1854 · Died 30 November 1900 · Q30875
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2026· 38 entries
Mshale: Lady Windermere's Fan (2025) | Full Play | Oscar Wilde Al-fayha Vs Al Qadsiah (U0jrPdKthp)
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MDZ Online: Oscar Wilde sobre la positividad: "Todos estamos en la cuneta, pero algunos miramos las estrellas"
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TN: Oscar Wilde, escritor: “Un hombre puede vivir feliz con cualquier mujer, siempre y cuando no la ame”
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The Economic Times: Powerful Tuesday Motivation Quote by Oscar Wilde: 'Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires...' - Irish poet and author's timeless wisdom on the ...
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AS: Oscar Wilde, escritor: “El hombre es menos él mismo cuando habla en su propia persona. Dale una máscara y te d
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rova: Olivia Wilde opens up about being bullied for her original surname
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Enfoque Noticias: “Nada que declarar, oficial…, salvo mi genialidad” apunta Oscar Wilde en Lady Oscar Salomé, obra unipersonal escrita e interpretada por Yuriria Fanjul
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The Fermanagh Herald: Enniskillen to celebrate Oscar Wilde with first WildeDay
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“A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
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“be possible to build an airier castle in Spain than this of the imaginary William Hughes”
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“, and of Marion Crawford that”
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“he had no enemies but was intensely disliked by his friends”
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“the only blot on my tutorship”
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El Comercio Perú: Cita del día, Oscar Wilde, escritor: “Lo menos frecuente en este mundo es vivir. La mayoría de la gente existe”
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinion
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Vistazo: La gran reflexión de Oscar Wilde: "Los hijos comienzan amando a sus padres; a medida que crecen, los juzgan; a veces, los perdonan"
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Galerie Magazine: A London Property with Ties to The Beatles and Oscar Wilde Lists for $9.39 Million
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awardswatch.com: Oscar Wilde: How Filmmaker Olivia Wilde Could Become the First Woman to Direct Herself to an Academy Award Nomination for Acting
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radiociudadoran.com.ar: Oscar Wilde fue reelecto al frente de la Comisión Directiva de los Bomberos Voluntarios de Orán
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Mshale: Andrew Scott Meets Oscar Wilde Truist Championship 2026 (ZhZWV2uIBO)
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TN: Oscar Wilde, escritor, aseguraba en 1891: “Vivir es lo más raro del mundo, la mayoría de la gente existe, eso es todo”
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FilaSiete: 10 películas basadas en obras de Óscar Wilde
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El Debate: Oscar Wilde, escritor: «Una vida sin amor es como un jardín sin sol cuando las flores han muerto»
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Style Weekly: Days of Being Wilde
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IMDb: La importancia de llamarse Oscar Wilde (2018)
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: ‘ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people…’A powerful warni
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El Confidencial: Frase del día de Oscar Wilde: "Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer siempre y cuando no la ame..."
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Murray Ledger and Times: Playhouse puts film noir twist on Oscar Wilde
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Understanding Oscar Wilde | His Life, Works, & Death
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Robb Report: Inside a $9.3 Million London Home With Ties to Oscar Wilde and the Beatles
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Revista Merca2.0: Oscar Wilde, writer: ‘A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her’
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Revista Merca2.0: Oscar Wilde, escritor: “Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer siempre y cuando no la ame”
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OkDiario: Oscar Wilde: «En la vida, un buen amigo siempre te apuñalará por delante»
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rock101online.mx: La delicadeza poética de Oscar Wilde definiendo el sonido de Norman Cook en su obra maestra
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rock101online.mx: La delicadeza poetica de Oscar Wilde, confirmada en la obra maestra de Norman Cook
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BBC: Oscar Wilde suite rediscovered at Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton
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UCL | University College London: Oscar Wilde’s hotel room discovered at Brighton’s Royal Albion
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2025· 4 entries
NPR: Once revoked for 'indecency,' the British Library reinstates Oscar Wilde's library card
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Yahoo: Oscar Wilde’s library card reinstated after 130-year ‘indecency’ suspension
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Yahoo: Critics Hated ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ Oscar Wilde Had a Perfect Response
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The British Library restored Wilde's library card after the conviction-related revocation of the card 130 years before
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2022· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Oscar Wilde said, "Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2019· 1 entry
A rainbow plaque was unveiled at the station recalling this event)
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2018· 1 entry
Matthew Sturgis' Oscar: A Life, was published in London
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2017· 2 entries
Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967)
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In cooperation with Church of the Village in New York City, then moved to Studio Voltaire in London the next year
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2014· 1 entry
Wilde was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighbourhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields"
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2011· 1 entry
The tomb was cleaned of the many lipstick marks left there by admirers and a glass barrier was installed to prevent further marks or damage
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2000· 1 entry
Leon Johnson, a multimedia artist, installed a silver prosthesis to replace them
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1997· 1 entry
It was the basis for the British film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character
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1954· 1 entry
Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment
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1950· 1 entry
Remarked how The Soul of Man Under Socialism had been an inspirational text for revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia but laments that in the Stalinist era "it is doubtful whether there are any uninspected places in which it
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1909· 1 entry
His remains were disinterred and transferred to the Père Lachaise Cemetery, inside the city
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1905· 3 entries
“Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship”
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As De Profundis; its complete and correct publication first occurred in 1962 in The Letters of Oscar Wilde
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And in full in 1962 in his Complete Letters), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-11-30.
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1895· 1 entry
For gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts
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1893· 2 entries
In the original French, and in London a year later in Lord Alfred Douglas's English translation with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, though it was not performed until 1896 in Paris, during Wilde's incarceration
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Another Victorian comedy, revolving around the spectre of illegitimate births, mistaken identities and late revelations
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1891· 2 entries
Published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde"
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But eventually decided to limit it to purely aesthetic subjects
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1887· 1 entry
Was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889
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1886· 1 entry
While at Oxford, Wilde met Robert Ross
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1884· 1 entry
When Wilde was lecturing at the Gaiety Theatre
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1883· 1 entry
“Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
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1881· 1 entry
To Constance Lloyd, daughter of Horace Lloyd, a wealthy Queen's Counsel (lawyer)
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1880· 1 entry
Completed his first play, Vera; or, The Nihilists, a tragic melodrama about Russian nihilism, and distributed privately printed copies to various actresses whom he hoped to interest in its sole female role
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1878· 3 entries
Awarded Newdigate Prize presented by University of Oxford for Ravenna (1878).
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Only briefly visiting Ireland twice after that
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When he met the Reverend Sebastian Bowden, a priest in the Brompton Oratory who had received some high-profile converts
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1877· 1 entry
Wilde was left speechless after an audience with Pope Pius IX in Rome
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1871· 1 entry
When Wilde was seventeen, his elder half-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned at a dance at Drumacon, Co Monaghan
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1864· 1 entry
For his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-10-16.
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1838· 1 entry
To one woman, and Emily and Mary Wilde, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, to a second woman
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