Oscar Wilde - A Woman Of No Importance: "The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he …