When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349
Oscar WildeOut of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality
Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar WildeBigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar WildeTags: marriage definitions wordplay
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar WildeTags: humour
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Oscar WildeTags: experience education knowledge
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar WildeIt's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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