from sebastienne

When you see this, quote Oscar Wilde.

someone:  [says something clever]
Oscar Wilde:  I wish I'd said that.
James McNeill Whistler:  Don't worry, Oscar.  You will.


okay, okay, that's cheating.  sorry.  here, how about this:


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.


no!  damn, that's the inimitable Dorothy Parker.  right, here we go, then --


More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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.

What wonderfully blue eyes you have, Ernest!  They are quite, quite blue.  I hope you will always look at me just like that, especially when there are other people present.

Mr Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.  To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.  And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?

... i could go on.  pretty much, just go read The Importance of Being Earnest -- and then remember dear oscar's last, best quote of all:

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

ooh! a meme from sanj!

Ask me what happens after the end of one of my stories. (Or, as resonant8 suggests, tell me what you think.  In short, TALK ABOUT MY STUFF, DAMMIT!  [g])

all of which are here.