Oscar Wilde Bio 1

[@CaptainMorganThe3rd]

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -- Oscar Wilde Happy birthday, Oscar. Wish you were here.

[@bordelique]

oh I've been wanting to see this for quite some time now. Thanks for uploading it!

[@MichaelD8393]

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." "When I am gone let it be said, that my sins were scarlet, but my books were read." - Oscar Wilde

[@PoetryETrain]

Thanks this has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook, :)

[@MrWilum]

"My Irish accent was one of the things I forgot at Oxford." Oscar Wilde

[@lsjt8924]

He also said “I am not English. I am Irish, which is quite another thing.”

[@DuskAndHerEmbrace13]

He lost his Irish accent at Oxford and apparently suddenly gained a very eloquent style of English, most probably for its aesthetic quality.

[@longfellowrocked]

I do not know how I have allowed myself to be ignorant of Oscar Wilde's life and works. It is shameful of me. Thank you for uploading these series; they will be the beginning of my love for his works and for the unconventionally lovely man himself.

[@maorhamagniv2221]

i was just watching videos when all of a sudden a wilde oscar appeared!

[@vmateo2842]

Lol, I see what you did there

[@l.louisconrad4876]

How wilde was the Oscar?

[@lene.m]

Because he fell in love with a man named Douglas. And Douglas' father reported him. He went to jail and in jail he got a damage that killed him. But, I have also heard that he got a serious ear infection, and died under surgery. Pardon me if my english is poor, but it is not my native language.

[@missm8067]

I wish Biography came with soundtracks, because I could listen to the violin music at 4:28 forever :)

[@Irish780]

Im a huge fan of mr wilde. And found this fasanating. Thank you

[@peorakef]

Coming off a ship in New York: "I have nothing to declare, but my genius."

[@chrish12345]

apparently he lost most traces of the Irish accent during/after his time at Oxford, he affected the ways and speech of an upper class English gent

[@LairMistress]

What is the name of this documentary? Can one get it on DVD? Does it have its own website? I absolutely love Oscar Wilde (in fact, I have a link to this video on a new Squidoo lens); but this is the first I've heard of this documentary. Could someone leave some more info about it at my Inbox? Thanks in advance, and thanks for posting this!!

[@EruiEye030]

Thank you for the great quotes Oscar!

[@Lujalone]

thanks! you helped me a lot! :)

[@robmitsui-NoCopyrightMusic]

"I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living." - Oscar Wilde

[@jimsher9880]

"Wits End" LOVE that title.

[@NaiJorJul]

I really enjoy Wilde's qoutes.

[@confucio9n]

Does anybody knows at 2:49 what style of music is that? maybe celtic?

[@GreenCertains]

He's my idol and my inspiration for working!!!

[@CaptainBluebear08]

Wilde was one of the best people that ever lived.

[@Lujalone]

hi! can anyone tell me what Babara Belford says at 3:44? She would say ... things to shock people. I'm writing a termpaper on Oscar and would like to cite that sentence, but i just don't get that word. :D

[@cristiandavidcaicedogaitan770]

hola este video me sirvio mucho en clase pero me gustaria que estuviera subtitulado

[@DuskAndHerEmbrace13]

Well I read it in a rather reputable biography but perhaps it is just speculation! However I'm sure the experience of attending Oxford University in those days was more of a formal affair than it is now. It's probably true that students had to conform to the (all-be-it-new) Received Pronunciation of the time as it was part of a gentleman's education which was probably standardised and generic. No modern anti-establishemnt students with dreadlocks and estuary accents like there are today!

[@lene.m]

Thank you Mr. Wilde, it is an honour to have you compliment me in that matter. And I see. I was wrong about your death. Imortality is a funny little thing though, isn't it?

[@Mack01000]

Oscar Wilde was Defininetly one of the best irishmen that ever lived.

[@blakegriplingph]

“It's a sorry man who can not invent an Oscar Wilde quote to fit his situation.” - Oscar Wilde on Oscar Wilde quotes

[@Nemiobleh]

If it is indeed an original, you really ought to bring it to some conduct of collectionist for inspection. There are plenty of so-called 'lost works' of Wilde's, and surely, if this book of yours was one, you would be paid handsomely should you bring to a place which can publish it.

[@DuskAndHerEmbrace13]

I'm sitting here learning about a fantastic man... Only to scroll down to the comments. It's like viewing the polar ends of the measure of humanity. Sad, lonely little people...

[@newmark401]

Interesting comments. By the way, his surname has an 'e' at the end, so it's Wilde, not Wild.

[@tetrabiblos]

Who are the weird, weird people responding to this excellent video? Still, dear Wilde would have I guess been pleased that his very name attracts such virulent attention after all these years. Floreat Oscar!

[@theunsheep]

"She would say bawdy things to shock people."

[@dob90210]

Why do American documentaries always blast out constant music the whole way through the documentary?

[@LadyOfBroadway333]

Happy late birthday, Oscar Wilde! :D

[@rameshnunavath127]

nic class

[@martinfabio2005]

MERCI BEATCH

[@sonorous6419]

Every great man was killed by the common man. Thanks for Everything Oscar!

[@tyty1794]

OMG ! Oscar O'Flahertie took it in the A ? So cool !

[@vmateo2842]

I can't help but see Benedict Cumberbatch in him.

[@Ziosite]

V Mateo So do I I love Oscar and I love Benedict

[@selfselfself]

Is that Oscar as a boy at 4:29?

[@TakaiAkita]

top video

[@theunsheep]

My pleasure :)

[@DavidOCru]

oscar wilde another great irish poet

[@1LG1116]

@JasySykes93 it's a spelling mistake of a single letter. big deal

[@winterwyrd]

gotta love oscar wilde

[@aralina007]

Love u oscar!!! :$

[@TheStfu1000]

@TheStfu1000 with robert hare, really doesnt make that sound surprising. and alas i've now found the motivation to read this book i bought.

[@vickyowen6035]

He also said if you keep on telling the truth you were bound to be found out .now consider what the child molester said of the victims rights to complain " little boys should be obscene and not heard " He told the truth , and is found out . Little boys were there for his sexual gratification . Doesn't sound so funny now does it .

[@hoodyardigann]

Mrs. Tenney brought me here . 😂

[@deliriousweare]

haha...dandy :D btw: don't you think his grandson has the same hairstyle as Wilde?

[@thomasmaltby711]

Oscar Wilde formerly resided at Tite Street London no plaque ? and seemingly a stained glass window in his memory at Westminster Cathedral yet served time where he had to work in forced labour, a paradox it seems still Lord Queensbury shouldn't have tangled with him.

[@aralina007]

Love u oscar :)

[@realllywicked]

Ms Da Via brought me here

[@lockateard17]

@MegaGayjesus nice 1 id say he did considering the side and class of dublin he came from now that side an class sound american a bit strange them folk.

[@cultofmao]

"I didn’t know they stacked shit so high"? I remember it was aimed at a Marine in the film maybe that is a better description.

[@LixxB]

i love him

[@terr777]

I don't understand how Merlin Holland doesn't take his name.

[@RowanWarren78]

@funkyladybean Here here!!!

[@DuskAndHerEmbrace13]

@onwinterhill I think you replied to the wrong person there.

[@HLecterPHD]

This fellow pocesses a certain nonchalance and grandeur. Quite the dandy i dare say.

[@VictorVonFox]

he sounds like the kind of guy u want to go have a "wilde" party with lol

[@RowanWarren78]

@Vincent777Legion1 Thelemite?

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl oh and yeah this account only says spain because i learnt spanish up to AS level and made a youtube account to try and keep up with the spanish. not that i have particularly. anyway why am i speaking so nicely to you and giving you the courtesy of logical and rational explanations still after your sadistic abuse...

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl it was an actually an educational psychologist test i took 5 years ago. but that's more than just saying 'i'm highly intelligent'. and notice how i haven't tried so hard to degrade your intelligence after you mentioned it (and randomly mentioned it at that). you see you reporting is only going to get your account that much closer to banned.

[@KTR2022]

lol I guess the man's just trying to do justice to Oscar Wilde's posh and ironic nature xD But yeah..it's quite like Mr.Bean I agree

[@LadyOfBroadway333]

"He was a proud nationalist Irishman" THEN WHY DID THE VOICE ACTOR GIVE HIM THAT THICK ENGLISH ACCENT!?

[@Zander25332533]

In fact, I think he was credited with saying "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." Not that I agree with his statement, but I don't understand how one can come to the conclusion that he was proud of being Irish when he clearly pointed out his disdain for patriotism.

[@oekalaboekala]

he left hit accent at Oxford, saw that in an other doc in witch you actually hear him speak on a grammaphone. He did in fact sound quit English.

[@Phiyedough]

LadyOfBroadway333 All accents are affectations anyway, he just adopted one which would get him where he wanted to go.

[@michaeldonaghy5685]

That is how he spoke. Tjalle Haaze is right.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

LadyOfBroadway333 Oscar lost his Irish accent at Oxford.

[@LeroyRifkin]

if oscar wilde was so smart then how come he's dead?

[@raoulhery]

Bossy was Dorian seductor, egocentric and corruptor! and Oscar is Basil, both inspired and destroy by this irresistible attraction! so ironic!

[@amadan9999]

@seonidh anglo -irish ? how do you come to that conclusion ?

[@isotoparato]

The master Wilde..., oh wild!

[@comanchio1976]

@CaptainBluebear08 I wouldnt say best, certainly one of the most interesting though.

[@DavidOCru]

@seonidh he was an irishman who lived in england how does that make him anglo?

[@faisal437]

Do i really see 0 dislikes? yes i do! :)

[@j0nnyism]

the comments on this post are some of the most bizarre ive read, shame people feel the need to use the colloquial abuse normally hurled at gay people especially in light of the context of the post

[@oscarfingaloflahertiewills9256]

They got my name right.

[@arnyarny77]

member hermetic order, golden dawn

[@alexanderkrampe6540]

Barbara Belford has written an immensely miserable book

[@JediHobbit89]

@talitakoomi That's how they dressed little boys back in the day.

[@you2begin]

Hey the cartoonist Kerou is as funny as Wilde. See if you agree- Kerou(.)net He's made a good start but can he prove himself?

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl and knwo i wasn't slandering you in any way. i hope you realise that it is enraging you saying completely wrong stuff like that.

[@louislandreau8683]

salut les gens!

[@charleslynching]

Shaw despised the BRITISH AND SO DID WILDE ,Wilde and became a Catholic

[@TheRealLaugh99]

i go to portora...

[@TheStfu1000]

and like here, my first comments weren't technically insulting; whilst they may have made you feel bad, your remarks have been Designed to belittle me and achieve nothing else really. and i don't thing i put an LMFAO between each sentence to annoy like you do. so really i think i've proven my case from the way you attack me that i was right in thinking you were cyberpathic from seeing your other abusive comments. you didnt even answer my first questions, you just called it slander.

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl and there's the highly predicted 'have a nice day' or 'good luck' put on the end of a message that does nothing but try to belittle the other person. i've seen your type before. you thrive on the internet, thinking you can talk in a way which you wouldn't if you didnt have your anonymity or being miles away in front of a computer. it's also of your type to consider your verbal abuse as some sort of skilled affair. so i'm asking why all this when all i asked is how are u affected?

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl you do realise even though these youtubers you're insulting don't know you and you don't know them you are still being offensive and they can still get angry even though you don't know them. why do you think they're stalking you? you do realise if you abuse multiple people they can team up and each report you. why do you try so hard to degrade others? what do you think about anonymity?

[@C0RVUSC0RAX1]

@MsGothicgirl Account Status Your account is in good standing.

[@TheStfu1000]

you even somehow got my second comment removed... after completely ignoring the questions i put to you out of simple intellectual curiosity. 'why do you try so hard to degrade others? what do you think about anonymity?' i think they fair and non offensive questions. you chose to completley ignore them and immediatley somehow tell me that i was slandering you... that's truly irritating as have all your other 'defensive' comments been. btw im in the top 2 percent of iq test takers. polymath.

[@jasonissober]

I read his books....its like im watching porn...

[@IGotYumph]

I would just like to say to those of you arguing in the comments... Oscar would pwn you ALL.

[@lockateard17]

@deityErisandTara obviously what?

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl Why do you decide to come to this video once and a while? claiming territory over whats said in the comments? obsessing over one video? what? i am someone who's had experiences with a very negative person and happened to see an argument on this video and see that your online comments are very similar to this other vicious serial cyberpath. how do you know hare? i own jon ronsons psychopath test and doesnt he say how the diagnosers are pyscos themselves? fact you're associated

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl i had put up with you stupidly immediately claiming i was slandering you but then there was a point when a random person came in and attacked me and you just decided to go with him and became sadistic and vicious. let's end it at this; just respond to this and try for one comment to leave out any insults, do you still think i am this real life danny and would you have responded differently from the beginning had you not thought this? and you owe me an apology. im not this danny.

[@martin2132004]

Oscar Wilde My Nigga

[@talitakoomi]

Sheesh! No wonder he had sexual identity issues! They put him in a DRESS as a young child with curls and bows in his hair and then took a picture of it!

[@mindsparks]

this celine charcter is too funny lol

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl im not part of this whole thing i just saw the top comment and read yuor comments on this video and saw the videos favourited on your sites. it seems like you're strongly against 'trolling' which makes me think you're not that pathic. how did trolls post you to here. surely you'd have had to visit on your own accord.. it seems like if they are the attackers they've got me fooled as i thought this your sister business was false. i said yuo're probably racist coz of your favourites

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl you're not sorry you tried hurting my feelings - who are you trying to convince?. you've kept at it even in your last comment. you've generically assumed how a mysognyist would perceive you and that has no relation to the person you're actually speaking to - me. but i still just can't imagine a woman relishgin in 'defending' herself like you. i read you had your gender changed. no offense.

[@TheStfu1000]

@celinebritgirl yeah i hadnt really done the research on him. i mean those psychologist trying to say you're mentally ill if you dont socialise every friday or whatever. no i don't see myself in that but nice insult. i think you are one of those psychopaths. you comment just like them - the care you put into constructing insults. trolls are like minor cyberpaths. from what i've seen you're the latter. but maybe im wrong.