The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“My mind may be in gutter, Abigail, but at least I’m looking at an angel!” — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“I don't like ordinary girls. But a girl who would kill a guy to make him hers and then kiss his still-warm… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
