Quote #237
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- I have but the simplest taste - I am always satisfied with the best.
- One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.
- I have nothing to declare except my Genius.
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.