One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her awhile heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed.Men become old, but they never become good.He who paints or writes only for financial return or to propagandize political and economic interests can only arouse feeling of disgust.

The only purpose of the artist is art, not religion, or science, or interest.

They were packed with witty sayings, and the author's cleverness gave him at once a position in the dramatic world

All these pieces had the same qualities-a paradoxical humour and a perverted (反常的) outlook on life being the most prominent.

Even before he left the University in 1878 Wilde had become known as one of the most affected of the professors of the aesthetic craze, and for several years it was as the typical aesthete that he kept himself before the notice of the public.Ĭriticism a man of far greater originality and power of mind than many of the apostles(使徒) of aestheticism undoubted talents in many directions as a typical aesthete that he kept himself before the notice of the public a poet of graceful diction playwright of skill and subtle humorĪ dramatist whose plays had all the characteristics of his conversations He won the College's Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.ġ874-1878, He had a brilliant career at Oxford, where he won the Prize for English verse for a poem.

In 1874, Oscar crowned his successes at Trinity with two final achievements. Again, he did particularly well in Classics, earning first in his examinations in 1872 and earning the highest honor the College could bestow on an undergraduate - a Foundation Scholarship. Oscar Wilde’s early school years In 1871, Oscar was awarded a Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin.The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde Lesson 4

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