Ends Quote by W. H. Auden

“IT was a sad if not an altogether broken young man who came to live in London after Wilde’s death. He could not yet…

— Rupert Croft-Cooke

“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

“I have found, though, that all the evidence shows that Douglas's conduct at the time, however impulsive and ill-advised, was honourable and courageous in…

— Rupert Croft-Cooke

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

— Gyles Brandreth

“He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

'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

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

— Oliver Goldsmith

Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

— Tacitus

“Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde: Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom):…

— Roberta Pearce

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the…

— James M. Barrie

“Hello, I am Oscar Wilde”

— Oscar Wilde