Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study

For the flowers of his talk bloom only in dead men's memories, and have been buried with their skulls.

It is characteristic of great men that, born out of their time, they should come to represent it.

His attempt to weave his life as a tapestry clothed him in a soiled and unbeautiful reality.

His paradoxes are only unfamiliar truths.

Paradox and perversity were matches to set fire to his thought and his dreams.

One cannot define in a sentence a man whom it has taken God several millions of years to make.