Century Quote by Max Beerbohm

“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

“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.”

— Tanith Lee

“Oscar Wilde said: 'Biography lends to death a new terror.' Well, memoir adds that same promise to parenting.”

— Anonymous

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

— George Bernard Shaw

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

— Camille Paglia

“ [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

'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

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human…

— Stephen Fry

“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

“Before I met Maria, I was your basic craven hermit. I spent most of my time in my room, in love with my walls,…

— Rob Sheffield

“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we…

— John Fowles