What is your favourite Oscar Wilde Quote?

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   mendoza_74posted 14 years ago

   I have a soft spot for this one:
   
   "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

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      sofsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing  - . Oscar Wilde  always loved that one!!

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   blondepoetposted 14 years ago

   To be or not to be that is the question.

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      2patriciasposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I think that one is from Hamlet?

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         blondepoetposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         LMAO ROFL I just googled it you are right...
         Oh I feel a complete idiot now.....(BP walks away her nurse cap clad head in shame)

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Onya BP! Shakespeare would be turning in his grave if he saw this! Hilarious!

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         blondepoetposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Oh god Earnest I can tell you I am still cackling myself....I have a stitch from laughing ROFL.

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            mendoza_74posted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I think oscar would be most pleased by your choice Blondepoet!

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   pisean282311posted 14 years ago

   "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
   — Oscar Wilde

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   china manposted 14 years ago

   I am not young enough to know everything

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I like that one too! I live with a group of little people and I can attest to that!

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   prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

   "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

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   Audreveaposted 14 years ago

   The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

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   Kangaroo_Jaseposted 14 years ago

   One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   I've always liked this one:
   
   "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
   — Oscar Wilde

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   Disturbiaposted 14 years ago

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

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    OliverKobsposted 14 years ago

    I don't actually have a favorite Oscar Wilde quote, but I do have a favorite quote about him "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
    
    'cause you know, the young quote was by J.M Barrie, I really have to thank Dinosaur Comics for that...

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    Shaolinaposted 14 years ago

    "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
    
    Which is why I never follow it. XD

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    mrfluffyposted 14 years ago

    This one always appealed to me.
    "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much".
    Oscar Wilde

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    Maddie Ruudposted 14 years ago

    Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it ever six months.

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    Home Girlposted 14 years ago

    "Who, being loved, is poor?"
    O.Wilde

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       mendoza_74posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I never heard that one. I love the way he can get something powerful into a few words. I also like "Industry is the root of all ugliness".

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    Gabriel Wilsonposted 14 years ago

    'Work is the curse of the drinking class'

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