Oscar Wilde fans

[esperia75]

Me!!I'm a huge fan of Oscar Wilde!

 

 

I noticed in some posts that here are a couple of Oscar Wilde fans, and I am one also, so I decided to make this thread where we can discuss the brilliant writer.

 

I actually got to know about Wilde from the movie about him, and I found his life story very touching. I've read his fairytales, his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and some parts of his other works and I've found them fascinating as well as his personality.

 

So, anyone else a fan of Oscar?

 

[sesil17aa]

Me!!I'm a huge fan of Oscar Wilde!

Welcome! Do you have any favorite piece of his?

[REBEKA]

I`m in a mood for some Oscar Wilde`s quotations, so here they go:

 

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

 

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

 

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

 

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

 

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

 

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

 

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

 

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

 

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

 

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

 

Wisdom comes with winters.

 

I can resist anything but temptation.

 

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

 

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?

...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

 

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

 

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

 

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

 

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

 

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

 

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

 

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

 

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.