Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

Oscar was the great-nephew of author Charles Maturin, an Irish clergyman and author whose gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer" inspired Oscar's pseudonym 'Sebastian Melmoth', which he used for three years from the time of his release from prison until his death.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.