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My favourite Wilde words:
I am not young enough to know everything.
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...and to quote Dorothy Parker:
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
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Brick Journeyman,
You must win the prize for the fastest climb from newbie to your current status.
And as for your posting that limerick, all I can do is give a Gallic shrug and say, "Noblesse oblige."
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Miscellany - Famous last words. I've kicked you off with an American presidential theme.
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> ...and to quote Dorothy Parker:
Excellent! I see that I should read more of Dorothy's work. She is obviously as sharp as old Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Wills Wilde himself!
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> Brick Journeyman,
You must win the prize for the fastest climb from newbie to your current status.
And as for your posting that limerick, all I can do is give a Gallic shrug and say, "Noblesse oblige."
I can not take all the credit, Anna. ;^) Most of my postings have involved responding to some excellent topics and queries by other members. Muchos Gracias, Thank You, Merci Beaucoup, Muito Obrigado, Danke Schoen, Buíochas, Grazie, Shalom!!!
My bio does tell the truth. I do immerse myself in everything that I do. Never a dull moment in my life!
'If I should give my children anything, I would give them enthusiasm. For that is all that I possess.'
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> Is it true that Oscar Wilde's last words were -
"Either this wallpaper goes or I go"
There is divided opinion on this one. There are some that say that he did say it (it is documented) but not in the context of famous last words. He must have spoken it quite some time before he died as I wouldn't imagine he was in any fit state to utter witticisms in his final throes of meningitis.
There are others that say he never said it - it was only attributed to him. It can't be proved one way or the other. Still it is an interesting little anecdote.
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If anyone is still reading this thread (sorry, I only just found out this site existed and joined up straight away!) there is actually a book called 'Verse and Worse' which I think is exactly on target.
And another limerick one I grew up with called Lure of the Limerick.
Unfortunately an ocean or two now separate me from my mother's library and I have to start all over again...
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G'day Bridget - good to have another Aussie on board!
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My father told this story about Wilde. At one point, he had announced to his friends that he was going to go straight. One day he was visited by a friend, who found Wilde pursuing a terrified bell-boy around his hotel room. The friend admonished him, "Oscar, you told us you were going to turn over a new leaf."
"I am," he panted, "just as soon as I get to the bottom of this page."
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