Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Go… - Oscar Wilde

" "

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest · 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

funny-witty-myth-monster-insults

English

Collect this quote

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden (Public domain / CC0)

Also Known As

Pen Names: С.3.3. • Sebastian Melmoth

Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Alternative Names: Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde

All quotes from Oscar Wilde Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Oscar Wilde:

George Bernard Shaw Anton Chekhov William Somerset Maugham Mark Twain Friedrich Nietzsche

Additional quotes by Oscar Wilde

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monste… - Oscar Wilde

About Oscar Wilde

Also Known As

Share this quote as an image

Additional quotes by Oscar Wilde