Body Quote by Stephen Fry

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to…

— Marisa Tomei

The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic…

— Stephen Fry

If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay…

— Kevin Sessums

When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be…

— Quentin Crisp

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own…

— W. H. Auden

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

— Tanith Lee

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to…

— Todd Haynes

'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

“About the only good thing about being sex-starved and hornier than the blue wildebeest in mating season she'd once had to write an essay…

— Allie A Burrow

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde.…

— Philip Kitcher

“So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his…

— Michael Levenson

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Love Oscar Wilde, the man had a way witrh words.”

— Margot Justes