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01-13-2007, 05:42 PM
|  | My Mirrors Are Black | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Olympia.
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| | | Oscar Wilde
Does anyone else love him as much as I do? I just bought "The Importance of being Earnest plus Four Other Plays" from Barnes and Noble. I got to see the Importance of Being Earnest in New York once, and it's such a great play. I love how he used distortion to cover up his views of society. And of course, The Picture of Dorian Grey is great too.
I think this should be his discussion thread. Favorite pictures, plays, essays, quotes, ect.
I love his quote "All art is quite useless." |
01-13-2007, 06:03 PM
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| | | I adore him so much, my favorite book is The Picture of Dorian Grey. I'll post my favorite quotes later. |
01-13-2007, 06:09 PM
|  | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | "Either this wallpaper goes, or I go!"--his dying words |
01-13-2007, 07:39 PM
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| | | what a strange man indeed.
life is one parrttttt lullabyyy two parts fearr
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01-13-2007, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Grace&Constanza "Either this wallpaper goes, or I go!"--his dying words | Seriously?
I just started The Picture of Dorian Grey today, I'm really liking it so far. |
01-13-2007, 08:13 PM
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| | | i've only read The Picture of Dorian Gray but it was great, certainly a quotable man too. Must pick up more. |
01-13-2007, 08:20 PM
|  | say it ain't so | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: calgary, ab.
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| | | oh oh! an oscar wilde thread. I was far too shy to start one myself, this makes me glad. ahah
anyways! Dorian Gray is one of my favourite novels of all time. I've recently started Lady Windermere's Fan, I think it has one of my favourite quotes of his in it, "we are all in the gutter, but some of are looking at the stars."
hah I liked that one so much, I painted it all fancy on a canvas and hung it above my bed. ha.
but I could get lost for days reading anything of his. |
01-13-2007, 08:23 PM
| | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Originally Posted by murphy. oh oh! an oscar wilde thread. I was far too shy to start one myself, this makes me glad. ahah
anyways! Dorian Gray is one of my favourite novels of all time. I've recently started Lady Windermere's Fan, I think it has one of my favourite quotes of his in it, "we are all in the gutter, but some of are looking at the stars."
hah I liked that one so much, I painted it all fancy on a canvas and hung it above my bed. ha.
but I could get lost for days reading anything of his. | I really liked "An Ideal Husband." 
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable, is what other people wear." |
01-13-2007, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bookstore life is one parrttttt lullabyyy two parts fearr | i didn't know that this was a oscar wilde quote. its one of my favorite lines in one of my favorite folk imposion songs though.
i just finished reading the picture of dorian gray a little while ago. it was a great book and still relevant today... maybe even more so.
"someone has killed herself for love of you. i wish that i had ever had such an experience. it would have made me in love with love for the rest of my life."
-podg -oscar wilde.
"when that high spirit, that morning-star of evil fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell."
-podg - oscar wilde. |
01-14-2007, 08:18 AM
| | don't say no to disco | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London
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| | i like dorian grey best, and also some of the fairy tales
i'd like to see salome performed.
what did you all think of the film 'wilde', with stephen fry and jude law? i was really impressed. i only saw it quite recently because i got sick of biopics and didn't watch any for years.
i really hate lord alfred douglas. what a mistake he made there  |
01-14-2007, 08:31 AM
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| | | The Happy Prince and Other Stories. It was where Wilde found grace. |
01-14-2007, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Grace&Constanza I really liked "An Ideal Husband." | yes! it has a really good bit about loving someone in spite of their faults, and if i wasn't supposed to be studying, i could quote him all day. |
01-14-2007, 03:43 PM
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| | Yes, Dorian Grey is really good, but the Importance of Being Earnest has to be one of his best plays.
"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
He was so witty. I really wish he could have written more novels, too.
His personal life is really interesting too. It's fascinating to know they put him to jail to do manual labor for two years just for being gay, but also really sad.  
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01-14-2007, 04:50 PM
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| | | I love him. My mum gave me a Complete Works book years ago, Dorian Gray is just fucking WONDERFUL. |
01-14-2007, 04:51 PM
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| | Wilde was a very enjoyable film indeed. He did live an ultimately tragic life
those years of labour killed him. I can't imagine him being played by anyone but Fry, even before it was made people constantly compared Fry to Wilde. Great wits. |
01-14-2007, 04:55 PM
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| | | I had to write an essay the other day about how he effectly used distortion to get his message across and poke fun at high society. It was really fun. |
01-14-2007, 04:56 PM
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| | | We went to his grave.
It's totally covered in kisses now. <3
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01-14-2007, 04:57 PM
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| | | I named my cat after him! I adore the sense of humour he had!! Brilliant man!
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01-14-2007, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by inside_solution I named my cat after him! I adore the sense of humour he had!! Brilliant man! | I was just wondering if it was after him 
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01-14-2007, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by *^_^* We went to his grave.
It's totally covered in kisses now. <3 | How sweet  When I visit I'll leave him the prettiest flowes I can find. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | |
