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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wile (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

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  • Michael Foldy examined "The Trials of" this author: "Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society"
  • Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man
  • He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die"
  • Disraeli created Vivian Grey; he created Dorian Gray
  • In a 1997 play Stacie Chaiken starred as Constance, wife of this "Earnest" author
  • This scandalous wit and playwright seen here died in Paris in 1900.
  • "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go", quipped this Irish playwright
  • In 1978 Vincent Price starred in a one-man show as this "Earnest" playwright
  • This wit penned the line "I can resist everything except temptation"
  • "A cynic...knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Tell the court what you meant
  • Asked if he had anything to declare on his first visit to the U.S. in 1882, this wit said, "Nothing but my genius"
  • His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"
  • An Irish wit & playwright:"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"
  • In 1892 rehearsals of his play "Salome" were halted by the censor
  • "De Profundis" was a letter he wrote while in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he'd had an affair
  • Ambrose Bierce described this "Earnest" playwright as "That sovereign of insufferables"
  • In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" this author claimed, "All art is quite useless"
  • [Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz] While going through customs, this playwright proclaimed, "I have nothing to declare except my genius" [I said that yesterday about myself!]
  • "The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure", he said after "Lady Windemere's Fan" debuted
  • This Irish wit's "De Profundis" was inspired by his stay at Reading Gaol
  • In 1895 an English jury reached no verdict on this playwright's morals; he was retried just 3 weeks later
  • This scandalous Irish wit:"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
  • In 1882 this Dublin-born wit was paid a whopping $250 to give a speech in Omaha
  • “I can resist everything except temptation”, he wrote in “Lady Windermere's Fan”
  • Sebastian Melma was the name used by this Irish playwright while in exile
  • In 1998 Liam Neeson portrayed this Victorian author's downfall in Broadway's "The Judas Kiss"
  • A scandalous Irishman, my parents were also writers:I lace words
  • Born in 1854, was well-read in Gaol for 2 years, Paris-ed away in 1900
  • Act I:Born in Dublin, October 16, 1854; Final act: died November 30, 1900 in Paris
  • "Double Exposure" is a Joe Layton ballet based on this author's 1891 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
  • In "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", he wrote, "Each man kills the thing he loves... the coward does it with a kiss"
  • In a poem, he penned, "In Reading Gaol by Reading Town there is a pit of shame..."
  • In "A Woman of No Importance", he wrote, "One should always be in love, that is why one should never marry"
  • Aubrey Beardsley illustrated the 1894 English translation of his "Salome"
  • This writer's relationship with Alfred Douglas was fine with him, but it drove Al's dad, Marquess of Queensberry, nuts
  • This author wrote that Dorian Gray had "finely-curved scarlet lips"
  • Irish wit who quipped, "to lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
  • This wit's play "A Woman of No Importance" premiered
  • "An Ideal Husband" was adapted from an 1895 comedy by this "Earnest" author, definitely not ideal husband material
  • An Irish writer, 1900:"My wallpaper & I are fighting a duel to the death. One... of us has to go"
  • This Dublin-born man was released from prison bankrupt in 1897; "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" was released in 1898
  • Reviewing "An Ideal Husband", G.B. Shaw said this fellow Irishman "has the property of making his critics dull"
  • Stolen letters & blackmail were part of the ill luck leading to this "Earnest" playwright's rack & ruin
  • He quipped, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances"

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