Wilde Quotes

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.