Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile Quotes

“Creativity, we’re told, is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

“A secret should be kept a secret,” murmured Conan Doyle, now picking up crumbs from his plate with his forefinger. “Once it is no longer a secret, it becomes a serpent—it goes where it will.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

“both were writers of high ambition, with”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

“He was a celebrity, in the tradition of Lord Byron and Beau Brummell, but more Brummell than Byron, more style than substance. “Evidently I am ‘somebody,’” he noted at the time, “but what have I done? I’ve been ‘noticed.’ That is something, I suppose. And I have published one book of poems. That doesn’t amount to much.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile