Oscar Wilde revived

Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
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.

Very true - the last thing an ignorant person needs is a stupid answer.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde
L'Envoi, 1882

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Another one:

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

- In fact I don't think that it is necessary to make mistakes to learn. But if we don't learn from mistakes we don't gain worthwhile experinece- (my dictum 😉 )

and still another one:

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Regardless of his orientation he certainly had charme!

Originally posted by Ponderable
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.

Shouldn't that be challenging for a chess player?

No, because we don't play on faces.

Oscar, clever as he was, had his own limitations. One of the greatest (and it contributed much to his downfall) was his tendency to attribute more importance to society's "opinions" than to actual thought. (Which is not saying that he agreed with it... but he thought it was important.)

"All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.
No man does.
That's his." -- Oscar Wilde

The post that was quoted here has been removed

I'm guessing he called it a tragedy just to make the saying fit together better.

My mom gave her best to her family and had an incredible tolerance for my dad, who was away often while I was growing up. But I was always my dad's girl.

"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief." -Oscar Wilde

Originally posted by Kewpie
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Nice.

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." -Oscar Wilde

Went to see Salome at the citizen theatre in Glasgow. Salome was a dusky maiden dressed in a wedding dress with Christmas tree lights attatched to her dress. People from above the stage threw sand some of which landed on the audience. Don't claim to have understood it, but it was interesting never the less.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.


🙂

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.