“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
The Mending Wall
A literary blog.
August92012
August12012
“Be yourself—everyone else is already taken!”
Oscar Wilde
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde
December202011
- Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
- Algernon: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
- Jack: I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
- Algernon: When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
August152011
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
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