Explain the Greatness of Oscar Wilde

[0scar Wilde/ATT]

His mind seems to have been carved from the classics, and his wit stolen from the gods.

[Lichto]

He seems to have been on drugs, and his name more like his nature.

[MinnaCaroline]

I can sing a Jimmy Buffett song about him called "Quietly making noise" It starts out "Oscar Wilde died in bed
Several floors above my head
Living well beyond his means
In that crazy Paris scene
Rain falls down in sheets so clear
No one ever calls me here
Traveling by my self these days
I'm into jazz and felt berets
Far from the that old eastern shore
Searching for strange metaphors
I don't want to be another victim of fashion
I don't want to see my name in the paper each day
Leave that to the young Turks
They're more handsome and dashing
Posing for paparazzi's down Laguna way
Down in the metro I feel the world start to multiply
Bastille, rubber wheels, spiked heels, subterranean lullaby
Met an African prancer, a hemisphere dancer
Spied the ghost of Brassens
We smiled at the secret we shared
And I hid it like contraband

Quietly making noise, making noise
Starts with kindergarten toys
Not too soft not too loud
Just enough to draw a crowd
Quietly, quietly, quietly making noise
Followed the beat, I found myself in this patois spot" I'll stop there.

[0scar Wilde/ATT]

'anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often' -Oscar Wilde

[Boltor]

Is not great.

[Lichto]

Oscar Wilde was on drugs. I disagree with drugs. Therefore, I disagree with Oscar Wilde, and the fact that he was great.

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[0scar Wilde/ATT]

^ No.
Van Gogh drank absinthe, so 'starry night' sucks.
Winston Churchill was an alcoholic, so he sucks.
Coleridge took opium, so he sucks.
Except for the fact that these people were all great, and all made our world a better place.

Oscar Wilde cultivated revolution, and spoke beautiful dissent. He was too beautiful to last, and too sordid to be conventional. His genius is a direct result of his alienation.

[Canton Rouge]

Oscar Wilde is also repeatedly quoted in the Uncyclopedia, along with instances of 'something happened in France on this day, rioting ensues'.

[0scar Wilde/ATT]

Oscar Wilde is brilliant. It is sad that his best work is the Ballad of Reading Gaol. Which of course was due to, well...

[Three Prongs]

Oscar wilde can swim on land

[Echolilia]

I think you mean walk on water.

[Anartonia]

Who the hell is Oscar Wilde?

[Boltor]

Google him if you don't know

[Echolilia]

Some day the UK will publicly apologize for mistreating him.