Oscar Wilde: Prominent writer of the Victorian era, Wilde is known for being most eloquent and succinct in his observations of life.
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
Oscar Wilde: Mentioned throughout. Immensely important to Morrissey.
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“...humility is for the hypocrite, modesty for the incompetent.”
“Common sense is the enemy of romance. Leave us some unreality. Do not make us offensively sane.”
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! -Oscar Wilde”
Oscar Wilde: This is primarily a biography of Oscar Wilde's early life up to his trial and imprisonment.
“The world is slowly growing more tolerant and one day men will be ashamed of their barbarous treatment of me, as they are now ashamed of the torturings of the Middle Ages. The current of opinion is making in our favour and not against us.”
“Close the eyes of all of us now and fifty years hence, or a hundred years hence, no one will know anything about Curzon or Wyndham or Blunt: whether they lived or died will be a matter of indifference to everyone; but my comedies and my stories and ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ will be known and read by millions, and even my unhappy fate will call forth world-wide sympathy.”
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
“‘Between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one a position, and prevents one from keeping it up,’”
“"The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone" ... " for respectable people the Anglican Church will do."”
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