Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde.
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde, October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 Initiated into “Apollo University Lodge No....