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- Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' — Sarah Bernhardt
- 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
- 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film… — Russell Crowe
- But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world… — Tucker Max
- A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have… — Malcolm Muggeridge
- A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman
- What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of… — Max Beerbohm
- The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
- Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry
- 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
- As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael
- I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. — Elizabeth Banks