Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde

Celebrate the master of the studied insult with this collection of Oscar Wilde’s most memorable razor-sharp witticisms.Oscar Wilde is one of the most widely quoted playwrights of our time, and his needle-sharp rejoinders are often repeated with delight, his understanding of the human character and its vanities unmatched by those who came before and after.In this compendium of all his best lines – including a timeline of his life, with quotations divided by themes – The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde demonstrates why, even more than a hundred years after his death, people are still drawn to Wilde’s dazzling repartee and the wicked brilliance of his social observations.Includes such notable quotes as:‘Work is the curse of the drinking classes.’‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.’‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’