1) The playwright Oscar Wilde was noted for his epigrams.

2) Oscar Wilde was Irish by birth.

3) It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life mimicking art.

4) Oscar Wilde was famous for such aphorisms as 'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes'.

5) Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.

6) His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition.

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8) Writers such as Oscar Wilde were the target of ill-informed and often hostile criticism simply because they were gay.

9) The Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 condensed representations both of aristocratic debauchery and the corrupting effects of foreign morals.

10) Poe never became abject , like Oscar Wilde.

11) Oscar Wilde, his masterpiece, The importance of Being Earnest.

12) Do you like Oscar Wilde?

13) Oscar Wilde was a noted nonconformist.

14) Of George Meredith, Oscar Wilde said, "as a writer he has mastered everything except language;"

15) Japan going a-whaling is, to borrow from Oscar Wilde, the unspeakable in pursuit of the almost uneatable .

16) Maurice Hall : I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

17) Magdalen alumni include William Hague, Seamus Heaney and Oscar Wilde.

18) "On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure" (Oscar Wilde).

19) CHRIS: Who's Oscar Wilde?

20) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater, both notorious advocators of the theory of"art for art's sake."

21) The German-born photographer was admired by writers such as Oscar Wilde.

22) Some subjects, I'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde, were better left only as implications.

23) Raised in a middle class, Protestant home, the son of a quantity surveyor and a nurse, he was sent off at the age of 14 to attend the same school which Oscar Wilde had attended.

24) The world's most visited cemetery has a star-studded afterlife gathering, with residents as diverse as Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Honore de Balzac and Isadora Duncan.

25) Salome, a drama created by Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, tells a story about Salome, the stepdaughter of Herod the Great in the Bible.

26) Greek and Latin are all English to me, said Oscar wilde.

27) Among these pillars of English literature were Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke.

28) In a week in which the Vatican made its peace with that dangerous consorter with witches Harry Potter, the Holy See has also revealed an unexpected soft spot for Oscar Wilde.

29) The "ten" books that Henderson had mentioned were more like 200. including the complete works of Shakespeare, Thomas Wolfe and Oscar Wilde.

30) One of the representatives who expounded the theory of, and was the spokesman for the school of, "art for art's sake" was Oscar Wilde.