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5 Stars This compendium of quotes from Oscar Wilde is arranged by subject matter alphabetically and provides a great deal of entertainment for $7 bucks. Not to mention it is the ultimate source for witty quotations to make you the life of the party. Seriously, a great book to page through at random for some …

5 Stars Oscar Wilde once said “Drama is the meeting place of art and life.” In this essential, compact volume Ralph Keyes leaves a trail to that corner by gathering the flamboyant author’s thorniest, at times most insightful quotes and anecdotes. Keyes uses Wilde’s plays, reviews, letters, interrogations, even conversational repartee (given its own section) …

We have not been taught to take Oscar Wilde seriously and with each proceeding generation, we seem to be compressing him into a voice that doles out epigrams. Wilde was much more than the dandified wit, immortalized by Gilbert and Sullivan in their opera, Patience.  And yet it is difficult to go beyond the epigrams …

His own words, full of the verbal flair that delighted his contemporaries, are taken from both his well-known works and his more obscure reviews, letters, and appearances in friends’ memoirs.

… several laughs to a page …

Entertaining to browse through, and still quite pertinent after all these years.