The Autobiography of Oscar Wilde
By:Oscar Wilde
Published on 2017-01-10 by
Oscar Wilde never wrote an autobiography. From his correspondence and his conversation, however, it has proven possible to piece one together. Constructed after the manner of Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey, this is his own story, in his own inimitable words.PRAISE FOR OSCAR WILDE|Reading and rereading Wilde throughout the years, I notice a fact that people who praise him apparently haven't in the very least: the basic and verifiable fact that Wilde is almost always right.|--Jorge Luis Borges|Though the Philistines may jostleYou will rank as an apostleIn the high aesthetic band,As you walk down PiccadillyWith a poppy or a lilyIn your mediaeval hand.|--Arthur Sullivan|He made dying Victorianism laugh at itself, and it may be said to have died of the laughter.|--Richard Le Gallienne|I have had the privilege of listening also to many other masters of table talk--Meredith and Swinburne, Edmund Gosse and Henry James, Augustine Birrell and Arthur Balfour, Gilbert Chesterton and Desmond MacCarthy and Hilaire Belloc, all of them splendid in their own way--but assuredly Oscar in his own way was the greatest of them all: the most spontaneous and yet the most polished, the most soothing and yet the most surprising.|--Max Beerbohm|Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued be-cause we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.|--GK Chesterton|Oscar turned his words into gems and flung them to the moon!|--Herbert Beerbohm Tree|What a tiresome, affected sod.|--Noel Coward|Rather like Gore Vidal in our time, Wilde was able to be mordant and witty because he was, deep down and on the surface, un homme serieux. May his memory stay carnation-green. May he ever encourage us to think that the bores and the bullies and the literal minds need not always win. May he induce us to rise from our semi-recumbent postures.|--Christopher Hitchens|No, I've never cared for his work. Too scented.|--Rudyard Kipling|What has Oscar in common with Art?--except that he dines at our tables and picks from our platter the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces. Oscar--the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar--with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions--of others!|--James McNeill Whistler|The dinner table was Wilde's event and made him the greatest talker of his time.|--WB Yeats
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