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36. “I am free and that is why I am lost.” 37. “I lack nothing. I only needed myself.” 38. “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something ...
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde 's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1] In Wilde's ...
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
The dedication to Mr. W. H. in the first edition of the sonnets. " The Portrait of Mr. W. H. " is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, though it does not appear in early editions. [1]
Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde. "Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”. — Hafez. “Don’t count ...
The play Oscar Wilde (1936), written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, based on the life of Wilde, included Frank Harris as a character. Starring Robert Morley, the play opened at the Gate Theatre in London in 1936, and two years later was staged in New York where its success launched the career of Morley as a stage actor.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl /) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
Engagement quotes. “Wherever you are is my home — my only home.”. — Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”. “May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”. — Rumi ...