Quotes About Wilde

I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

It is, of course, Wilde's point that socialism interferes with sociability.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Her long periods of intense concentration began to be punctuated by bouts of directionless daydreaming, sudden explosions of feeling. At such times Shakespeare was too dangerous to be read closely—Hamlet whispered truths too cruel to be borne, every word in Lear hooked in flesh and could not be dislodged. As for Wilde, Hobbes, Schopenhauer . . . even cynicism, Marya saw, can't save you.

It is a moment when a shift in the nature of literary fame occurs. Previously, a famous writer was a writer who became famous by writing. Wilde pioneered the idea of becoming famous first, and then getting down to the writing. By the end of 1882 he was "still" only a minor poet and diligent lecturer. But he was also famous on two continents and therefore primed for a literary career.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em. Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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

telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

I'm a Wilde...Madmen are two for a tuppence around here, and we are absurdly dramatic by nature. Miraculous saves and brushes with death were practically a daily occurrence when I was growing up. Lady Joan Wilde

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

Wilde almost smiled. "Nice loophole you found there." "A corollary of my occupation. Love me for all my faults.

Wilde thus had a wonderful political rationalization for his extravagantly privileged existence: just lie around all day in loose crimson garments reading Plato and sipping brandy and be your own communist society . . .

Wilde was not a fan of pundits. They came on television to either confirm your narrative or piss you off, and either way, that wasn't healthy for anyone.

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

'The Judas Kiss' was really wonderful. I loved that it concentrated on just two events in Wilde's life, and Rupert Everett was top dollar.

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of who were named after Wilde's sons. Wilde goes on to extrapolate art as a science and as a social pleasure, to its most logical and illogical extremes, and it ends up being very funny, indeed.

Wilde's formulation of art's purpose: "[What art] seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.