Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde On Heaven

Posted on March 7, 2022 by odeboyz

“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

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Oscar Wilde On Religion

Posted on August 8, 2021 by odeboyz

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.”

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An Oscar Wilde Quip

Posted on August 13, 2020 by odeboyz

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

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Oscar Wilde on journalism

Posted on January 17, 2019 by odeboyz

‘The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.’ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n14/john-pemble/the-only-true-throne Chris

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Oscar Wilde: poet

Posted on September 20, 2016 by odeboyz

“As usual I think of Oscar Wilde. It’s the same old story: ‘I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.’” Laurent … Continue reading →

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