Best 4 quotes of Richard Ellmann on MyQuotes

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.