Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still,”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.” — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Howard's irony slayed the vulgar, but, because in some quarters his irony was not liked, he was criticized for his vulgarities.” — Bronson Howard Copy Share Image
“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.” — Eliot Grayson Copy Share Image
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“The other man stood his ground, with an arrogant, insolent stance. Although it was hard to believe, clearly the idiot didn’t have a clue… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
