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{{quote|''"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."''|'''Oscar Wilde'''}}
 
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His fun was interrupted when he sued for libel over being called homosexual. He was, in fact, homosexual (or maybe [[No Bisexuals|bisexual]]), but British law would still have found for him if that had been considered irrelevant. Instead, he lost, and since homosexuality was illegal... yeah. [[Real Life]] [[Downer Ending]], there.
 
Famous for producing an enormous body of quotable wit- enormous enough that of the hundreds of quotes ''attributed'' to him, as many as half may resemble things he actually said. This tendency to gather misattributions is the root of his status as [[Uncyclopedia]]'s [[Memetic Badass]] / [[Memetic Molester]] / [[Memetic Sex God]] -in -chief.
 
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=== '''Works with their own pages:''' ===
 
=== '''{{examples|Works with their own pages:''' ===}}
* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''
* ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''
* ''[[Salome]]''
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=== '''Other works provide examples of:''' ===
 
==={{tropelist|His '''Otherother works provide examples of:''' ===}}
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]] or [[A Love to Dismember]]: ''Salome''
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: An aversion drives the plot of ''An Ideal Husband.''
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* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: "The Fisherman and his Soul"
* [[Pretty Boy]]: Bosie.
* [[Self -Plagiarism]] Some of the same bits of dialogue appear in more than one of his plays.
* [[Shakespeare in Fiction]]: "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
* [[Smug Snake]]: Mrs. Cheveley in ''An Ideal Husband.''
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[[Category:Notable QuotablesPlaywrights]]
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[[Category:Print Long Runners]]
[[Category:Authors of Quote]]