Books

Oscar Wilde (characters)

This character appears in 61 books.


  1. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

    by E. J. Hobsbawm

    Oscar Wilde: Irish Writer

  2. How to Be Popular

    by Meg Cabot

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “Whatever is popular is wrong.”

  3. Wilde: Screenplay

    by Stephen Fry, Richard Ellmann, Stefan Rodnicki, Julian Mitchell

    Oscar Wilde: Prominent writer of the Victorian era, Wilde is known for being most eloquent and succinct in his observations of life.

  4. Gossip Girl: Book 1

    Gossip Girl

    by Cecily Von Ziegesar

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

  5. Sexual Personae

    Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

    by Camille Paglia

  6. Morrissey in Conversation: The Essential Interviews

    Oscar Wilde: Mentioned throughout. Immensely important to Morrissey.

  7. Gossip Girl: Book 11

    Don't You Forget About Me

    by Cecily Von Ziegesar

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

  8. High Impact Quotations

    by Richard Pound

  9. Kaplan PSAT 2011

    by Kaplan

  10. Kaplan PSAT 2009

    by Kaplan

  11. Secret Lives of Great Authors

    What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights

    by Robert Schnackenberg

  12. Oscar Wilde Mysteries: Book 2

    Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder

    by Gyles Brandreth

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “...humility is for the hypocrite, modesty for the incompetent.”

    “Common sense is the enemy of romance. Leave us some unreality. Do not make us offensively sane.”

  13. The Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth

    by W. Randall Jones

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! -Oscar Wilde”

  14. Oscar Wilde From Purgatory

    by Hester Travers Smith

  15. The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume II: Romantics to 20th Century (2nd Edition)

    by David Damrosch, Christopher Baswell, Clare Carroll, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Heather Henderson, Constance Jordan, Peter J. Manning, Anne Howland Schotter, William Chapman Sharpe, Stuart Sherman, Jennifer Wicke, Susan J. Wolfson, Anne Howland

  16. Play-Making

    by William Archer

  17. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Volume 1

    by Frank Harris

    Oscar Wilde: This is primarily a biography of Oscar Wilde's early life up to his trial and imprisonment.

  18. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Volume 2

    by Frank Harris

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “The world is slowly growing more tolerant and one day men will be ashamed of their barbarous treatment of me, as they are now ashamed of the torturings of the Middle Ages. The current of opinion is making in our favour and not against us.”

    “Close the eyes of all of us now and fifty years hence, or a hundred years hence, no one will know anything about Curzon or Wyndham or Blunt: whether they lived or died will be a matter of indifference to everyone; but my comedies and my stories and ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ will be known and read by millions, and even my unhappy fate will call forth world-wide sympathy.”

  19. Ghostgirl: Book 1

    Ghostgirl

    by Tonya Hurley

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

  20. The Vertigo Years

    Europe, 1900-1914

    by Philipp Blom

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “‘Between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one a position, and prevents one from keeping it up,’”

  21. Triumph

    The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church

    by H. W. Crocker

    Memorable Quotes by Oscar Wilde:

    “"The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone" ... " for respectable people the Anglican Church will do."”

  22. Words of Wisdom

    A Thinker's Palette

    by Scott Gallagher

  23. Acting Wilde

    Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

    by Kerry Powell


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