Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Gyles BrandrethTags: mystery oscar-wilde
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wilde jack algy the-importance-of-being-earnest
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeTags: history historical-fiction oscar-wilde
So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
Tags: soul hell oscar-wilde eyes curious
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Oscar WildeTags: death oscar-wilde wallpaper
So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know.
Michael LevensonTags: romance secrets oscar-wilde mothers homosexuality 19th-century coming-out maurice-novel gay-men closeted em-forster sexual-orientation
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wilde the-picture-of-dorian-gray
Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.
Oscar WildeTags: books oscar-wilde libros
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
Oscar WildeTags: soul oscar-wilde body drink
When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:
'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?'
'I am sorry... I fear not.'
'You see where you are now!
Tags: compassion empathy religion oscar-wilde self-righteousness
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