Wilde Quotations

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

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

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.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

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

Some of my best friends are Oscar Wilde.

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