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... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.


Andrew Elfenbein


#oscar-wilde #respect

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.


Dorothy Parker


#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

Sometimes the only difference between life and death is the ability to retain the smallest scrap of hope.


Lisa Kleypas


#suddenly-you #death

Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?" "No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #marriage

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.


Oscar Wilde


#gray #inspirational #oscar #wilde #imagination

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.


Oscar Wilde


#love

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable


Oscar Wilde


#wit #men

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.


E.M. Forster


#lgbt #oscar-wilde #men

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.


Oscar Wilde


#lord-illingworth #oscar-wilde #forgiveness

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.


Ernest Borgnine


#feel #gotten #grateful #had #i