“[On Oscar Wilde:]"If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it.[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]”
“Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.”
“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because 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.”
“Hello, I am Oscar Wilde”
“I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas”
“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”