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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
We Irish are...
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Source: Said to poet W. B. Yeats, Christmas 1888. Quoted in: Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde, ch. 11 (1987).
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.