December 2011
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Happy holidays!
bellatrix-is-a-star:
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"She was free in her prison of passion."
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
– Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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‘Harry,’ said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, ‘every portrait...
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via exceptionallyread)
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Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the...
– Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost” (1887)
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It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. The ugly and the stupid...
– Oscar WIlde. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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MABEL CHILTERN is a perfect example of the English type of prettiness, the...
– An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (via whereareyoureyes)
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Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music...
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via midnight-quill)
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
– Oscar Wilde (via enthusiasmfortheunnecessary)
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
– Oscar Wilde (via itoncewassaid)
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
– Oscar Wilde. The Model Millionaire.
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I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic...
– Oscar Wilde ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (via feather-fey)
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
– Oscar Wilde (via mariahwebb)
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...
– Oscar Wilde (via jetaway)
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and...
– Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Harry to Dorian pg. 170 (via evoketheforms)
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses...
– Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of...
– OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
126) A word from the wise
(via 1001smiles)
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
– Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...
– Oscar Wilde (via whatsleftislove)
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The only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde (via crystalcarousels)
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses...
– Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest.
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yourowndarlingboy said: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C… !
Oh dear, how did I forget À Rebours?!
bankston said: Get Thomas Wright’s “Built of books: how reading...
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yolo-gang-or-die asked: I don't know if you've answered this question already, but whatever. What's your favorite work by him?
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lewisandafrisbee asked: I'm not sure of how much of a long shot this is, but do you know what books Oscar himself enjoyed reading?
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theartofreiding-deactivated2012 asked: Which do you believe was Oscar Wilde's strongest format: his short stories, his plays, or his novel?
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We cannot have a"Question Tuesday" without...
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde (via two-atoms-in-a-molecule)
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live...
– Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (via kaishabackwards)
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Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men...
– Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
– Oscar Wilde (via krgray)
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Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get...
– Algernon, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (via karolena)
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Then the snow came, and after the snow came the frost. The streets looked as if...
– The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (via sweetestsummer11)
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It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via yellowcollargirl)
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act III (via green-dandyism)
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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
– Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray.