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In 1895, at the peak of his career, Wilde became the central figure in one of the most sensational court trials of the century. The results scandalized the Victorian middle class; Wilde, who had been a close friend of the young Lord Alfred Douglas, was convicted of sodomy. Sentenced in 1895 to two years of hard labor in prison, he emerged financially bankrupt and spiritually downcast. He spent the rest of his life in Paris, using the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth. He was converted to Roman Catholicism before he died of meningitis in Paris on November 30, 1900. http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?lb=t&p=url%3Ak/kourosI remember reading somewhere that the father of young Lord Douglas had the connections to crucify Wilde. So he chose the wrong kouros to have a crush on. "Wilde, Oscar," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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bankrupt and spiritually downcast
in other word - dispirited (e-cross-thread-icon)
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
--The Critic As Artist
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
--In Conversation
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
--In Conversation
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And ends by deceiving others.
That is what the world calls a romance.
--A Woman of No Importance
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray
MRS. ALLONBY: My husband is a sort of promissory note; I'm tired of meeting him.
--A Woman of No Importance
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--
simply a confession of failures.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray
...in married life three is company and two is none.
--The Importance of Being Earnest
I am not in favor of long engagements.They give people the opportunity of finding out each others' character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
--The Important of Being Ernest
If we men married the women we deserve we should have a very bad time of it.
--The Ideal Husband
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
--Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Englishwomen conceal their feelings till after they are married. They show them then.
--A Woman of No Importance
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman.
It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
--Lady Windermere's Fan
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
--The Importance of Being Earnest
It is the growth of the moral sense in women that makes marriage such a hopeless
one-sided institution.
--An Ideal Husband
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and makes one believe things that are not true.
--The Nightingale and the Rose
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Dear WO'N: One of my favorites by Oscar Wilde:
"Niagara Falls is the first but not the greatest disappointment in American married life."
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A favorite word sixty years ago was "inferiority complex". - wwh
IDNC, IMR.
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Hey, WW, since you're a music lover, I'm wondering if you love Prokofieff's "A Love for Three Oranges?" If so, you've got an Orange Crush! Drink up, girl!
Geoff, who had the above effervescent thought many years ago, when he was only Nehi, when he told it to his Pop.
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Geoff, who had the above effervescent thought many years ago, when he was only Nehi, when he told it to his Pop.
I guess that was back when you were just a little Sprite!
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he was only Nehi, when he told it to his Pop.
You mean told it to the towering grasshopper?
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Dear Geoff,
My Prokofiev crush is on his two violin concertos--I two-time them both, attending to one of 'em while the other's back is turned! (Or while one of the CD's is lying on its back and can't see what I'm doing with the other one!)
From all this runnin' around I'm too pooped to pop!
Stuck on Milstein,
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back to speculation on falling into things.....in some parts of the world, women are referred to as "falling pregnant" (when they do, that is)
Sue was entered for the gymkhana but she had to drop out when she fell pregnant.
which reminds me of another unfathomable phrase: up the duff.
Or....hmmmm. Should I be posting this on the "British slang" thread?!
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