Quotations by Oscar Wilde

OSCAR WILDE (1854 –1900), AN IRISH ESSAYIST, NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT AND POET. One can survive everything nowadays except death.  ~ Oscar Wilde, "Oscariana" (1907) “People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible...

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Quotations by Mark Twain

MARK TWAIN (1835—1910), AN  AMERICAN HUMORIST, JOURNALIST, LECTURER, AND NOVELIST WHO IS NOTED FOR HIS ADVENTURE STORIES : THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1876) AND ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885). “Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose...

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Quotations by Harold Pinter

HAROLD PINTER (1930 –2008) WAS AN INFLUENTIAL MODERN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT AND THE 2005 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR LITERATURE.  “One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.” ~ Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics “There are some things...

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Kingsley Amis Quick Facts

Kingsley Amis, an English Novelist, Poet, Critic, and Teacher. Profile Birth Name: Kingsley William Amis AKA: Sir Kingsley William Amis Date of Birth: April 16, 1922 Place of Birth: Clapham, London, Middlesex, England, UK Zodiac Sign: Aries Date of Death: October 22, 1995 Died at Age: 73 Place...

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