Creative Quotations from . . .
Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16
Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
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F
The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

R
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
A
"The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts."
N
"The world is a stage, but the play's badly cast."
K
"What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The American Invasion," in Court and Society Review (London, 23 March 1887)."
R: ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol," pt. 5, st. 14."
A: ""Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock," in Pall Mall Gazette (London, 21 Feb. 1885)."
N: ""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," ch. 1, 1891."
K: ""De Profundis," (1905), a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas following the scandal that ruined Wilde."
   



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