Creative Quotations from . . .
Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16
Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
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F
Health - silliest word in our language, and one knows well the popular idea of health the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

R
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
A
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
N
"If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it."
K
"MRS ALLONBY. They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Oh, they go to America."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "A Woman of No Importance," I"
R: "Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891)."
A: ""The Soul of Man under Socialism," in Fortnightly Review (London, Feb 1890)."
N: ""The Soul of Man under Socialism," in Fortnightly Review (London, Feb 1890)."
K: "A Woman of No Importance," I"
   



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