I'm surprised Oscar Wilde hasn't been mentioned here, he's probably said some of the best things and is easily the most quotable person (after Shakespeare of course) in Literature!
My favourite is probably "Uncertainty is the essence of romance" or maybe "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars"
A myriad of Oscar Wilde Quotes
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well yeah but i just wanted to see what peoples favourite wilde quotes were, its not a competition people!
this is great, from Wilde:
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
oh, help!
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
these are all tons of fun to read.
*giggles
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Last edited by amuse; 02-17-2005 at 06:37 PM.
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
Well if you check out the "your fav quote" thread, you'd find some Wilde's words there, including mine.
My fav one is : The mystery of love is greater than then the mystery of death.
Last edited by subterranean; 02-17-2005 at 10:18 PM.
"I have nothing to declare exept my genius" is a pretty good one
In dreams begin responsibilities.
Im just wild about Wilde (and Wilde is wild about me.) parody of an old song from the 1920s
My favorite Wilde quote:
Caricature is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
A few of my favorites:
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Legendary, but it might be true. On his deathbed, Wilde looked around him and said, "that wallpaper is terrible. One of us must go!
My campus sold t-shirts with that quote
Originally Posted by Monica
Response to Wilde
My favorite Wilde quote (disappointingly was not included in the recent Motion Picture version of "The Importance of Being Earnest")
is:
"Uncertainty is the essence of Romance"
to which I add -
"But Certainty is the very object of love"
"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
Henry Wotton - second in wittiness only to Falstaff.
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It's IMPOSSIBLE for me to actually choose a favorite quote by Wilde but this one has always seemed more deep to me than his other usually sarcastic and witty comments:
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grown older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." -Oscar Wilde
"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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