Just post your favourite quotes from Oscar Wilde. I have recently become very interested in this man. he was an open homosexual from Dublin living in England, from the upper class protestant ascendancy of Ireland ( despite having strong irish nationalistic leanings ) and is known as one of the wittiest and best users of the English language.
Here is a clip I found from the internet that actually creeped me out a little. Apparently it is from some mysterious site claiming it is his actual voice from the dead. A lot of people believe it as well which kind of caught me off guard.
"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more ".
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination ".
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Apart from the witty quotes, he wrote some very entertaining plays. Some of them have been made into good films, too.
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This one is the best:
Never fear shadows, for shadows only mean there is a light shining somewhere near by
Also
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -
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Pretty sure he wasn't an 'open' homosexual.
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Some of my favourites ...
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
(When asked by Americian Customs) I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
And of course his last words.
as he got ill...
Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
As he lay dying...
(to the wallpaper) One of us must go. -
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With the exception of Dorian Grey and the Importance of Being earnest works can anyone recommend anything else by him I should read?
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An Ideal Husband is good, especially the film with Rupert Everett et al.
Originally Posted by Duke
I found Dorian Gray somewhat distasteful though... -
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In what way? Originally Posted by athanaric
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem) and Lady Windermere's Fan (play).
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The style is somewhat... sticky, with typical fin de siècle elements. Not really my taste. Originally Posted by Duke
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Why? Originally Posted by athanaric
It challenged the hypocritical society of upper class England back then. I think it is great. -
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Didn't he say something along the lines of ''I know why you Americans are always depressed; it's because your wallpaper is so ugly.''?
Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.
Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
Originally Posted by Miel Cools
Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.
Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
Jajem ssoref is m'n korewE goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtompWer niks is, hot kawsones -
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Not quite he was asked if he thought that Americia was a violent country (this is just after the American Civil War), which in reply he said "“I can tell you why America is so violent, it is because your wallpaper is so ugly. Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer
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As much as I like OW as some who has been to England and seen Changing Rooms - he has no leg to stand on with that argument. British taste in Wall Paper is simply ghastly... If the American Revolution saved from nothing but that it was worth it I'll take a painted house sans wall paper any day.I can tell you why America is so violent, it is because your wallpaper is so ugly.IN PATROCINIVM SVB Dromikaites
'One day when I fly with my hands - up down the sky, like a bird'
But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place; some swearing, some crying for surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.
Hyperides of Athens: We know, replied he, that Antipater is good, but we (the Demos of Athens) have no need of a master at present, even a good one. -
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Ahh but when he said that only the rich and the middle classes had wallpaper (in silks etc)
, the lower orders only had bare walls, maybe a bit of whitewash.
But to your point one can not help but agree, most wallpapers are bloody horrible....and you came all the way here and watched a DIY programme, was it raining? (oh yes, 99.9999999% chance it was). -
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Damn wallpaper, nothing beats paint in a neutral colour. Originally Posted by conon394
On topic, that's strange that Wilde has been brought up considering I've been watching a few related things here and there. Reading as well.'Ahh yes an authentic rastaclot weapon, as used by the rastaclot nobles in the court of King Bumbaclot '
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It's funny you mention Oscar Wilde, uncyclopedia references him as the source of pretty much every single quote on every article they have. A lot of them are really quite funny too.
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