Character Quote by Brander Matthews

Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and…

— Alexandra Petri

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next…

— Max Beerbohm

“...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark." "That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans." "He did have great…

— Amy Fecteau

“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as…

— Walter Hamilton

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

— Camille Paglia

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the…

— David Hume

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of…

— Adrian Dunbar

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else,…

— John Hurt

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in…

— Kenneth Tynan

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram;…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition…

— Edgar Allan Poe