Favourite Wilde Quote

It's the big mans birthday, and I know we all love him, so what's your favourite quote from him?

This one is the most relevant to us all.

Life is too short to learn German.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

I can resist everything but temptation.

This quote was my signiture on here for a long time.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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it probably inspired this from Jarvis Cocker

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

the only way to treat a lady, is to make love to her. if she is pretty. and to someone else, if she is not.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

And my local take on it:

"The thing I hate about Switzerland is that the shops are not open on Sundays: The thing I love about Switzerland is that the shops are not open on Sundays."

friends and family are people who don't know how to live or when to die.

I thought Shakespear said this.

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."

Oscar Wilde

Nah, that's Ozzie rephrasing Bill's famous line (from Jaques' monologue in As You Like It ):

"All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players ... (etc etc etc)"

you're both thinking of Gary Oldman in the Nokia ad (1:24)

"Youth is wasted on the young"