Wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde
When Oscar Wilde arrived in London at the age of 24, he declared, “Somehow or other, I’ll be famous, and if not, I’ll be notorious.” Little did he know how true that would be.
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon and an Irish poetess, didn’t have the money or the position to enter London society.
However, he had succeeded brilliantly in Oxford, where he had developed a reputation for being that very British phenomenon: a dandy and a wit. He wore his hair long, liked extravagant clothes, decorated his rooms with peacock’s feathers and sunflowers. His jokes and witty sayings were so good that within a year he was being invited to every important party.
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