February 2012
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January 2012
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“She has form,” he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - “that...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale And The Rose (via bunkercomplex)
December 2011
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November 2011
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“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold, and bartered away. It...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde (via iamthegrudge)
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“What wisdom is to the philosopher, what God is to his saint, you are to me. To...”
– Ursula Doyle, Love letters of great men. London: Pan Macmillan Ltd, 2008. Book.
Page 128. Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
(via en-ve)
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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 (via oscarsaidit)
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“A ring of gold and a milk-white dove
Are goodly gifts for thee,
And a hempen...”
– Chanson Oscar Wilde (via monarchfly)
October 2011
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Jokes about Dorian Gray never get old.
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moneypenny:
Rupert Penry Jones - Roses and Rue...
September 2011
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Scarlet kisses of death for Oscar's tomb →
Graffiti and candles have damaged Wilde’s memorial but lipstick may ruin it forever, his grandson says
Note: This is from 2000.
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August 2011
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“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly -...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...”
– Oscar Wilde (via bartlettpeartree)
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“Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Every body is clever nowadays. You can’t...”
– The Importance of Being Earnest (via thoughtsthatbreathe)
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How Oscar Wilde Painted Over “Dorian Gray” →
July 2011
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“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (via raskolnika)
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“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via speakmnemosyne)
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“If you want a red rose, said the Tree, ‘you must build it out of music by...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Nightingale and the Rose)
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June 2011
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“There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince (via quotare)
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“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes...”
– Oscar Wilde, Intentions (via dosscunt)
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“I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing...”
– Oscar Wilde (via dandetiger)
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“I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or...”
– Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via circuitsnmotors)
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“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I)
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“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (via marieaustin)
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“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the...”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Remarkable Rocket” (via judeajackson)
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“The only difference between a caprice and a life long passion is that a caprice...”
– Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via lorrainbow)
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via stuffotherpeoplesaid)
May 2011
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via livinglauren)
“Basil: “You call yesterday the past?”
Dorian: “What has the actual lapse of...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (via what-soon)
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“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not...”
– Oscar Wilde in The Nightingale and the Rose (via untoldbliss)