New Delhi, May 12 -- Oscar Wilde, born in Dublin in 1854, became one of the most memorable literary figures of the Victorian era through his wit, plays, essays, and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. After studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, he became associated with aestheticism and later gained fame for comedies such as Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's career was marked by public brilliance, scandal, imprisonment, and a posthumous reputation as one of literature's sharpest observers of vanity, morality, and social performance.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."- Oscar Wilde

A close version appears in Wilde's play Lady Wind...