Oscar Wilde

 Prof Abdelhamid Fouda 

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) popularly known as Oscar Wilde was a complicated man that led a difficult life filled with hope, triumph, but visited by peril and beset with despair.

Oscar Wilde was a flamboyant and sparklingly witty Anglo-Irish playwright, poet, novelist short story writer and critic. 

He once said '‘I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my books’'.

He earned fame and fortune with three hugely successful society comedies, Lady of Wonderment's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of being Earnest.

He wrote his only Faustian novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in which he explored the doctrine of aestheticism: devotion to the beautiful. 

Some famous quotes of Wilde are given 

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.”

“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

  “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”

"Men only know the trivial side of love that's why they love often 

In life, you can have one great experience 

We can have in life but one great experience and the secret of life is to duplicate that experience. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is faithless who know love´s tragedies.”