delanceyplace.com 05/31/06 - oscar wilde
In today's excerpt - the Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). One of the most successful playwrights of Victorian London and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a notorious trial for homosexual acts. A list of his most famous works would include The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', a play, and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', a poem. As evidenced here, he was known for his rapier wit:
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."-- An Ideal Husband, 1893
"I can resist anything but temptation." -- Lady Windermere's Fan, Act I, 1892
"Only the shallow know themselves." -- Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has the right to blame us. It is the confession not the priest that gives us absolution." -- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I, 1895
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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