Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference… — Daniel Simon Copy Share Image
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
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