Oscar Wilde meme

[watervole]

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."


There's a scary amount of truth in that one...

Comments

[entorien.livejournal.com]

I'd quote, but I don't know any Oscar Wilde...

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Hm, yes, I wonder who I am, though?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Borrow my copy of 'the Importance of Being Earnest' It's funny on paper, though it's even funnier on stage. Wilde was a genius playwright.

Actually, I've got the play on video and it's the Edith Evans version! (Fans will tell you that that is the only real version to see)

[alphekka-alpha.livejournal.com]

Hey, babe, take a walk on the Wilde side... 8-)

"Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue."

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."

"When people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong."

"Most religious teachers spend their time trying to prove the unproven by the unprovable."

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
--

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It is wonderful - though I did see the Patricia Routledge stage show when it came to Sydney and thoroughly enjoyed it (though subtle it was NOT).

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It's a good one, yes - I think people don't expect this kind of straight-to-the-point truth from Wilde.