Oscar Wilde Biography: His 'Wild' Life

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Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Steve Theunissen
Producer - Jack Cole
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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[paddy]

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

[sunlion]

''To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.''
- Oscar Wilde

[CFinch]

His last words supposedly "It's me or this wallpaper, one of us has got to go" I don't know if that's true but it seems in line with his famous wit.

[mag]

“I can resist anything but temptation” - Oscar Wilde

[piperar]

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough for them to make you a villain." - Oscar Wilde

[aurorahill]

I have adopted my favourite Wilde quote as a life motto:
Life is too important to be taken seriously.

[foxyboiiyt]

Some bring joy wherever they go, others whenever they go. Best quote ever

[vanguard]

"Every saint has a past every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde

[brightthunderbird]

"What a funny little man you are" had me dying

[davidmoreno]

Also remember that a woman screamed at Wilde as he was being arrested "If you were my husband, I'd feed you arsenic!" to which Wilde replied, "If I was your husband, I would drink it."

There never was or never will be someone as savage as Oscar Wilde

[GodsGoofyLilBean]

"I cannot choose my hundred favourite books because I have only written five, " --Oscar Wilde

[natsinthebelfry]

Every time I see the man, I can't help but think of what good casting they did with Stephen Fry in "Wilde"s eponymous role.

[corgis]

"Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

[douglaswaggoner]

A quote I like is, “Punctuality is a waste of time.”

[AntaresSelket]

Oscar Wilde is one of my all time favorite authors, and as a teenager and young woman, he was also an obsession. I thought I knew the major events of his life and death. However, as terrible as death is, I was not aware that he received medical treatment so close to the end. I read somewhere that he died of a respiratory infection, but he obviously had so much more going on than pneumonia. His death sounded horrific. I cherish Oscar Wilde because he was a man of modern thought. He attempted to be what society expected, but he couldn't forsake his true self. In many different ways, he forged the way for many alternative and artistic lifestyles, while enriching the world with his literature.

[Carols]

i love how basically people tried to destroy wilde's lives screaming: YOU ARE GAY!!!
and he just went: i'm also busy

[edgaralonzo]

"Always be yourself everybody is already taken"
~oscar wilde

[calliemacedo]

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" --Oscar Wilde

[donovanberserk]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"

-Oscar Wilde