“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
About Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin, Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom. He entered a household unusually rich in learning, performance, controversy, and public ambition. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an eminent surgeon specializing in diseases of…