Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
De Profundis, 1905
De Profundis, 1905
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Re: Wilde Quotes
Wed, March 24, 2004 - 9:17 PM"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma," he said.
"And in the afternoon?" she asked.
"In the afternoon," responded Wilde, "-- well, I put it back again."
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 12:19 AM"the trouble with temptation, is, it may never come again" -
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 3:34 AM"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
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Fri, March 26, 2004 - 1:01 PM"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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Tue, April 6, 2004 - 10:50 AM"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
Yes, he was a wise man...
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Sat, April 10, 2004 - 11:00 AMA poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- The Children of the Poets
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Sun, April 11, 2004 - 9:30 AMAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
The Critic as Artist, Part II
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Tue, June 8, 2004 - 8:30 AMFrienship is far more agonizing than love: it lasts longer
And my favorite:
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is someone who can only find his way by moonlight and whose only punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Sun, September 9, 2007 - 12:56 PMDear Monika,
I cried when I read your post...oh the dawn.
A moonlight dreamer and Haiku Poet
"A snow flake faling
In the silence of the night--
Warmed by the moon's glow."
My favorite for Monika
Kundalini
statens001@hawaii.rr.com
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Tue, June 8, 2004 - 8:34 AMone of my favorites, if not my favorite:
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Thu, August 26, 2004 - 9:30 AM"Women are ment to be loved, not understood."
- Sphinx without a secret
"To loosa one parent, Mr Worthing, Mya be regared as misfortune. To loose both looks like carelessness." -Importance of being ernest
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 5:11 AM"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 6:47 AM" Well, one of us had to go."
On Wilde's deathbed, referring to the hideous wallpaper in his cheap hotel room. -
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 12:59 PMI love that Nicole. Definetly something a Queer would say though.
"All Art is quite useless"
"The only thing worse then being talked about, is not being talked about"
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 2:22 PM"Life is too important to be seriously"
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 1:01 PM"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. "
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Thu, April 7, 2005 - 9:52 AMSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Thu, April 7, 2005 - 10:00 AMThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
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Wed, April 6, 2005 - 1:21 PM"Wickedness is a myth, invented by good people, to account for the curious attractiveness of others"
there are some quotes here i have never heard before.
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Fri, April 8, 2005 - 7:24 AM"I love acting, it is so much more real than life." - Dorian Gray
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Sat, April 16, 2005 - 9:45 AM"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.
People are
either charming or tedious."
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Sat, April 16, 2005 - 7:08 PM"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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Sat, April 30, 2005 - 11:20 AM"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
"I love talking about nothing, it's the only thing I know anything about."
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Wed, July 6, 2005 - 2:55 PMThis one holds a special place in my heart because it's partially quoted in Joyce's Ulysses:
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
From the preface to Dorian Gray. The entire preface is eminently quotable, though... -
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Mon, July 25, 2005 - 7:35 AM"I'd like to die in the Catholic Church. I could certainly never *live* in it." -
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Thu, August 18, 2005 - 10:57 AMMy favorite...
"We are in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" -
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Thu, August 18, 2005 - 11:01 AM"Life's a banquet. But some poor suckers are starving to death!"
Oh wait, that was Auntie Mame.
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 10:09 PMNowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 4, 1891
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Fri, February 9, 2007 - 10:19 AMChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Wed, March 21, 2007 - 12:07 AMMan loves woman, in as much as he would volunteer for the captive breeding program that requires a career to support the endeavor. JC
