Top 3 Quotes by Richard Ellmann

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

Depth, Surface, Dies

Richard Ellmann (2013). “Oscar Wilde”, p.510, Vintage

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

Artist, Men, Soul

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

History, Different, Literature

Richard Ellmann Quotes