The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Wilde is one of the happy few who do not need the approval of the critic, nor even, sometimes, the approval of the reader for the pleasure he gives us is constant and irresistible." JORGE LUIS BORGES "[Wilde] was a great artist...he wrote to please his own wild intellect." G.K. CHESTERTON "Wilde was the greatest talker of his time." WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS "If, with the literate, I am impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit. We all assume that Oscar said it." DOROTHY PARKER