Description
Looking for Oscar Wilde Quotes?? Then this is the App for you!Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Oscar Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for libel. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest, tried for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (written in 1897 & published in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.
This app contains all of Oscar Wilde's quotes, and more will be added when found.
Features of app
-Browse quotes by random or by sequential
-Easy add/remove to favorites
-One click share with facebook, twitter, whatsapp, messaging...(basically all the share apps u have on ur phone)
Download this app today and enjoy the inspiration of Oscar Wilde on your phone!
Update 22nd Nov 2011: Fixed force close issues. Pls email us if anymore such issues. If you like it, pls give it a good rating!
Antara
Jul 1, 2012 7:50:40 AM
Good Like the app. Thanks.
Marisa
Jun 28, 2012 2:08:51 PM
Love Oscar Wilde so I really like the app.
Brian
Jun 25, 2012 8:18:45 PM
rocka love oscar n a great app x
Sunny
Jun 18, 2012 11:50:52 AM
HTC HD One of the best collection!!!
sudhan
Jun 9, 2012 11:34:13 AM
Needs online Some more to be added,Else fantastic app...
ron
May 24, 2012 4:46:26 PM
Good My only complaint Is that there is no Picture of Oscar Wilde After each quote. That is why you only get four stars!
Neil
May 4, 2012 7:56:41 PM
Magic Love it!
Jamie
Apr 15, 2012 8:27:25 PM
J Great app
Skippy
Apr 15, 2012 10:35:00 AM
Love the app Would love to see more like this
khadija
Apr 11, 2012 8:04:05 PM
Awesome I really love it!!