Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486206028
More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0486122433
More than 1000 ripostes, paradoxes, and epigrams on sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, and smoking: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etcetera. Also excerpts from his trial testimony, where the tragedy implicit in Wilde's humor is nowhere more vivid.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0486111008
Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : 9780880299459
Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted and quotable men in history. He once boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim effortlessly borne out by the range and scope of the examples collected in this book. It is an entertaining, instructive, and revealing look at a man who is unlikely ever to be forgotten. "Oscar Wilde," wrote Richard Ellmann, "we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us. His wit is an agent of renewal, as pertinent now as a hundred years ago."
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Invective
ISBN : 9781854798077
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231104562
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.
Author : Maria Leach
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1843176866
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486168425
"I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays. The most comprehensive collection of Wilde's witticisms, it will delight both longtime fans and new readers.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0241251818
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Author : Benjamin Errett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0698153863
Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time. Elements of Wit is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.
