Books Quote by Camille Paglia

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

— Anonymous

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

“All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.”

— David Levithan

“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

“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all…

— Dorothy Parker

“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

“Read regularly and wildey, choose your topics wisely”

— Faris Shuaib

'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

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

— Anne Sexton

“Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.”

— Jennifer Hudock

“My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.”

— Harold Bloom