Famous quotes containing the words oscar wilde, oscar, wilde and/or published:
“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Until the Women’s Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he’d like to publish more of my poems, but he’d already published one by a woman that month ... this attitude was the rule rather than the exception, until the mid-sixties. Highest compliment was to be told, “You write like a man.””
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)