Originally posted by hakima On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, I found it fitting to resurrect an old thread even if I had to re-create it...
What a pity that the first was permitted to be buried far too long...
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
--OW
Happy Birthday to the Big O...
;-)
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. -Oscar Wilde "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -Oscar Wilde "True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde Thanks, hakima. He's one of my favorite authors too.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
He underestimated the power of Society and he believed himself to be invulnerable. The last part of his life was very tragic, as you say. I wrote an essay on The Importance of Being Earnest many years ago, and to do that I had to read a lot about him and some of his work.
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” - Oscar Wilde
the other day i was reading this and went to my favorite quote page to dig some wilde gold...
instead,
i stumbled when i read some pithy statements by this man,
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
Originally posted by rookie54 the other day i was reading this and went to my favorite quote page to dig some wilde gold...
instead,
i stumbled when i read some pithy statements by this man,
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
Your post is very interesting but I don't think I understand it fully.
Who is stupid? Based on what can one categorize another as stupid. Does it mean mentally retarded or just ignorant?
Ignorance, lack of knowledge, prejudices, etc.. can lead to stupid questions, or no questions at all by simply accepting the status quo.