Posted 8/17/2004 05:17:00 PM by Douglas

So it's come to this. An Oscar Wilde quote on the blog. The blog has had to take a long, hard look at itself today, so this is the perfect link of reflection. Plus, even when you consider what a wack-o Oscar was, he could spin a good yarn.

• Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner of later, to be found out.
• Time is waste of money.
• The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
• To be premature is to be perfect.
• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Holy Crap! I think we just found a new banner for the blog! How perfect! Thank God we're not there. . . yet!

• A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
• In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
• Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
• It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
• The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
• The old believe everything : the middle-aged suspect everything : the young know everything.
• The condition of perfection is idleness : the aim of perfection is youth.
• Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.