Today Oscar Wilde could celebrate the 155th birthday. Cheers! Oscar Wilde is still a synonym for ingenious and ready witted style, l´art pour l´art. Perhaps thus many of his sentences remain forever young, modern and to the point. Like the Bible Oscar Wilde is an unfailing source of knowledge and wisdom.  The British director Stephen Fry says:

“One of the things I love Oscar for is his denial of convention, his sense of paradox, his hedonistic refusal to believe anything which wasn’t tested by experience – taking nothing on trust. There’s something about him, the more one learns about him, that appeals to everybody…But he has terrific style. For him, style was a moral attitude and I think people really respond to that. I’m sure he worked at his epigrams and aphorisms in his study, but he also had a great natural wit and was able to throw off very funny remarks all the time. But when he was being serious he was very serious. “The Soul Of Man Under Socialism” and “The Critic As Artist” are both profound examinations of late-Victorian society, which have a lot to say to us still“.

Please visit the Oscar Wilde Society.

PAROL has dedicated two scarves to Oscar Wilde. You´ll find them in two colour variations in the Online-Shop, here and here and here and here.