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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:15 PM
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Random Oscar Wilde Quotes
Oscar is the man!
Feel free to add please

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde


I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:18 PM
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1. I like his (alleged) last words:
"Either the wallpaper goes or I do."
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:19 PM
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That's my favorite
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:26 PM
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6. Paris
is an expensive place to die
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:19 PM
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2. I can resist anything......but, temptation
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:23 PM
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3. and then there's . . .
“Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”
Oscar Wilde

“Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
Oscar Wilde

"Nowdays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:25 PM
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5. Just amazing - I wish there was a brain like that around these days
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:38 PM
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7. There is...
but unfortunately Mort Sahl doesn't work much these days
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 04:17 PM
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11. I think Mr. Gore Vidal comes pretty close...
but he's far more serious-minded than dear Oscar was. My favorite Oscar quote? "Men marry because they are bored; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 03:24 PM
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4. "Life is never fair...
...and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

That's my favorite one.
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 04:00 PM
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8. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between.

Well of course the moof fav is about the lack of a civilization
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 04:02 PM
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9. the original Aunty Mame
Im sure some folks are familiar with this movie starring Roslyn Russell.

I think the wit and bon mots coming from "Aunty Mame" owe alot to Oscar Wilde (if not lifted from him altogether).
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 04:11 PM
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10. "Life is absurd but a plate of moths with butter and salt is nice."
Oscar, Wild
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 04:34 PM
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12. "my definition of hell. . .
is to be surrounded by beauty, and not know love. . ."

O.W.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 05:24 PM
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13. "For Those Who Like That Sort of Thing …
… it's the sort of thing that they like."
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