Reference Writers: Oscar Wilde

 

Oscar Wilde

1854-1900

Oscar Wilde

“And all men kill the thing they love,
     By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!”
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898


 

Biography

The Soul of Man under Socialism 1891