Noun
Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)
Source: WordNetAnd if I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you" to which Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight". Source: Internet
A scandalous success at its premiere, Strauss's "decadent" opera set to Oscar Wilde 's play is still immensely popular with today's audiences. Source: Internet
At nine, Jorge Luis Borges translated Oscar Wilde 's The Happy Prince into Spanish. Source: Internet
Characters Oscar Wilde said that, in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), three of the characters were reflections of himself: error The painter Basil Hallward and the aristocrat Lord Henry Wotton observe the picture of Dorian Gray. Source: Internet
Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. Source: Internet
A. A book a year seems to be the norm but I would much rather have eighteen months: I’m a stupendously slow writer and, like Oscar Wilde, I can spend a day deciding whether a comma should go or stay. Source: Internet