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
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."

R
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
A
"No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
N
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."
K
"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Gwendolen, in "The Importance of Being Earnest," act 1."
R: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A: "Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 1 (published in Intentions, 1891)."
N: "Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 2 (published in Intentions, 1891)."
K: "Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 2 (published in Intentions, 1891)."
   



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