one of my favorites bieng "Only the shallow know themselves"...
2006-09-13 11:37:37 · 6 answers · asked by CC...x 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
that should say 'being', of course but I'm losing my voice...(Ha).
2006-09-13 11:38:54 · update #1
Yours is a beautiful quote, and it fits certain sections of this site very well. Though I'm not one to quote often (which I mean both ways), I've looked up what Oscar Wilde said or wrote and this hits home:
"Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies." (from 'The Picture of Dorian Gray')
But thanks for the question in a different sense completely. The mere mention of Oscar Wilde reminds me of his statue in a park in Dublin. When I was there on a holiday with my younger sister, she climbed up his backside, holding to the left arm he stretched out. It might sound disrespectful, but it wasn't - and it looked great. There was another statue of Oscar Wilde laying on the grass, against a soft slope. She climbed on top of him and I got a picture of her and Ozzie and her snogging. Great stuff - though apparently it left him cold as stone regardless.
2006-09-13 11:48:24 · answer #1 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth
http://www.quotationsbook.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde
2006-09-13 11:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
2006-09-13 11:41:45 · answer #3 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
work is the scourge of the drinking class
2006-09-13 11:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by Ronald Raygun 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
something like "The worst tragedy in life is sometimes getting what you wish for." --- that's not exactly it but close -- he was brilliant & hilarious
2006-09-13 11:46:49 · answer #5 · answered by t_o_w_e_r_i_n_g 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood"
2006-09-13 11:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Amber D 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋