Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde! (Post your favorite Oscar Quote!)

[goodboy]

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

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[keroro gunsou]

1. mine

"if this is the way the Queen treats her prisoners, then she doesn't deserve to have any."

[goodboy]

2. nice. (nt)

[Forkboy]

3. I got a few of his that I've always liked, even if he was basically a pretentious blowhard.

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

[goodboy]

6. love him or hate him, he had a way...what do you imagine he'd

have thought about today's teabagging repukes?

[Forkboy]

12. I suspect modern society would have given him a wealth of targets to choose from.

:)

[Coventina]

4. "When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong".

Another good one:

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6 months."

[goodboy]

5. "I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot" (nt)

[unpossibles]

7. I may be paraphrasing a bit, but this one has become something of a personal motto

"life is far too important to ever be taken seriously"

I am also a big fan of the lying in the gutter one.

[joeybee12]

8. The only thing I can't resist is temptation...

...surprised I'm the first to post this classic. Happy Birthday Oscar!!!! :toast:

[Lord Tredegars Macaw]

9. Ooooh, I've got a few

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

And this one is a particular favourite:
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Plus, of course, said ABOUT Wilde:

*In a rare appearance as a 'straight man', Oscar Wilde complimented James Whistler on a quip with the words, 'I wish I'd said that.' Whistler devastatingly replied, 'You will, Oscar, you will.'

[joeybee12]

10. * Your majesty is like a stream of piss...

*Your majesty is like a jelly donut.

[gmoney]

19. bat's piss, you mean...

"You shine, like a shaft of gold, when all around is dark..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0

[goodboy]

11. "I wish I'd said that" that's hilarious. (nt)

[goodboy]

13. "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -oscar wilde (nt)

[Bunny]

14. His purported last words:

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

[goodboy]

15. this is great too:

"In a strange twilight man is seeking for himself, and when he has found his own image, he cannot understand it."

[wickerwoman]

16. "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence

without civilization in between."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

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

[mitchum]

17. "Well, bite me, motherfucker!"

Okay, maybe it was Noel Coward or Churchill who said that

[myrna minx]

18. Wilde is one of my favorites.

:loveya:

When going through American customs he was asked if there was anything he would like to declare.

"Nothing but my genius." was Wilde's reply.

[MajorChode]

20. "Everybody live for the music-go-round"

[GCP]

21. I never travel without my diary.

One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

[Moondog]

22. "Candy's dandy, but liquor's quicker." n/t

[Aristus]

23. Nope. That was Ogden Nash.

Sorry...

One of my favorites: "London is simply filled with women who trust their husbands. One can always tell them because they look so thoroughly happy."

"Men remarry because they adored their first wives. Women remarry because they detested their first husbands. Men try their luck; women risk theirs."

[Moondog]

24. You're right.

Had a brain fart.

And don't be sorry. When you're right, you're right.

[Starry Messenger]

25. Happy Birthday Oscar.

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

[EFerrari]

26. "I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding

between myself and a young person." -- Lane, Earnest

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. I have very simple tastes; I am always satisfied with the best.

Love it!