History Creator / OscarWilde

* GallowsHumor the aforementioned last words being an example on TheOtherWiki.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright of the Victorian Era; he lived in VictorianLondon. A huge celebrity of his day, known for his wit and social commentary. He habitually made perverse and snarky quips, and often immortalized them in his work. His most celebrated play, ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest,'' is still often performed today. He also wrote poetry, most famously ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'', one novel (''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'') and several beautiful tales, including ''Literature/TheHappyPrince''. He once wrote a break-up letter that became world-famous (''De Profundis'').

* "Literature/TheCantervilleGhost"

* ''{{Theatre/LadyWindermeresFan}}''

* AuthorAvatar: The character with all the good lines generally; Lord Darlington in ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' and Lord Goring in ''An Ideal Husband'' specifically)

* {{Blackmail}}: Mrs. Cheveley, twice, in ''An Ideal Husband.'' [[spoiler: She fails both times.]] Mrs. Erlynne in ''Lady Windermere's Fan''.

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* TitleDrop: ''The Importance of Being Earnest''; ''An Ideal Husband''; ''A Woman of No Importance''

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* ''{{The Picture of Dorian Gray}}''

* InsaneTrollLogic: "The Devoted Friend", "The Remarkable Rocket".

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[[caption-width:330:The original [[IncrediblyLamePun bi]][[{{bishonen}} shonen]]]]

* SelfPlagiarism Some of the same bits of dialogue appear in more than one of his plays.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright of the Victorian Era; he lived in VictorianLondon. A huge celebrity of his day, known for his wit and social commentary. He habitually made perverse and snarky quips, and often immortalized them in his work. His most celebrated play, ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest,'' is still often performed today. He also wrote poetry, most famously ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'', one novel (''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'') and several beautiful tales, including ''The Happy Prince.'' He once wrote a break-up letter that became world-famous (''De Profundis'').

* {{Narcissist}}: How he liked to act. ThePictureOfDorianGray is a book about this.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright of the Victorian Era; he lived in VictorianLondon. A huge celebrity of his day, known for his wit and social commentary. He habitually made perverse and snarky quips, and often immortalized them in his work. His most celebrated play, ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest,'' is still often performed today. He also wrote poetry, most famously ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'', one novel (''ThePictureOfDorianGray'') and several beautiful tales, including ''The Happy Prince.'' He once wrote a break-up letter that became world-famous (''De Profundis'').

An Irish playwright of the Victorian Era; he lived in VictorianLondon. A huge celebrity of his day, known for his wit and social commentary. He habitually made perverse and snarky quips, and often immortalized them in his work. His most celebrated play, ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest,'' is still often performed today. He also wrote poetry, most famously ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'', one novel (''ThePictureOfDorianGray'') and several beautiful tales, including ''The Happy Prince.'' He once wrote a break-up letter that became world-famous (''De Profundis'').

[[caption-width:330:The original [[AWorldWidePunomenon bi]][[{{bishonen}} shonen]]]]

-->''"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."''

-->''"[He] is still occasionally mistaken for actor GeneWilder, probably because he’s as close to [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] as any living human’s ever been."''
-->-- [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-10-best-comebacks-of-all-time/ Cracked.com]]

Famous for producing an enormous body of quotable wit- enormous enough that of the hundreds of quotes ''attributed'' to him, as many as half may resemble things he actually said. This tendency to gather misattributions is the root of his status as {{Uncyclopedia}}'s MemeticBadass / MemeticMolester / MemeticSexGod in chief.

An Irish playwright of the Victorian Era; he lived in VictorianLondon. A huge celebrity of his day, known for his wit and social commentary. He habitually made perverse and snarky quips, and often immortalized them in his work. His most celebrated play, ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest,'' is still often performed today. He also wrote poetry, most famously ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'', one novel (''ThePictureOfDorianGray'') and several beautiful tales, including ''The Happy Prince.''

* AlasPoorYorick or ALoveToDismember (''Salome'')
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys (An aversion drives the plot of ''An Ideal Husband.'')
* AuthorAvatar (The character with all the good lines generally; Lord Darlington in ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' and Lord Goring in ''An Ideal Husband'' specifically)
* AuthorsOfQuote (Even within his own lifetime)
* AuthorTract (Nearly everything he wrote, to some extent.)

* BedsheetGhost (''The Canterville Ghost''.)
* {{Blackmail}} (Mrs. Cheveley, twice, in ''An Ideal Husband.'' [[spoiler: She fails both times.]]) Mrs. Erlynne in ''Lady Windermere's Fan''.

* InsaneTrollLogic ("The Devoted Friend", "The Remarkable Rocket".)
* MasterPoisoner (Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, according to ''Pen, Pencil, and Poison'')

* OurSoulsAreDifferent ("The Fisherman and his Soul")

* ShakespeareInFiction ("The Portrait of Mr. W.H.")
* SmugSnake (Mrs. Cheveley in ''An Ideal Husband.'')
* TakeThat (To various cultures, places, and people for his satirical works.)
* TitleDrop (''The Importance of Being Earnest''; ''An Ideal Husband''; ''A Woman of No Importance'')
* UpperClassWit (Lots, including Wilde himself.)