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2458148 No.2458148 [Reply] [Original]

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about...and that is NOT being talked about.

>> No.2458153

Wow. Did he actually only say four witty things in his life?

>> No.2458206

Posh Homo who contributed very little to humanity. No escaping the facts on that one.

>> No.2458216

Sound like a description of the average person on /lit/

>> No.2458274

Oscar Wilde was a classy man. Also, the importance of being earnest was a laugh riot.

>> No.2458280

>>2458153
have you actually never read Dorian Gray?
unless you don't count that as him saying things.

>> No.2458287

I'll not have another one of you bitches talking bad about Mr. Wilde. The man was walking art.

>> No.2458296

>>2458148
10/10 would bang

>> No.2458311

>>2458280
I have not. I did watch a film adaptation of Salome's Last Dance, and it had such popping dialogue.

I'd read more, but I haven't got the time. I will stick up for the man when I can though. My post was sarcastic. I know he said plenty of witty things.

>> No.2458314

>>2458311
There's always time for Dorian Gray. The book isn't very big.

>> No.2458317

>>2458311
okay cool thanks for not being a blowhard and explaining yrself.

but I call bullshit on you not having enough time. seriously yr on this board every time I come here. just sayin, brother.

>> No.2458319

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0

>> No.2458318

>>2458315
He was a hundred times classier than the world he lived in.

>> No.2458315

>Oscar Wilde was a classy man.

No he wasn't, he was actually very trashy. He was just into aestheticism so he didn't look trashy.

>> No.2458323

>>2458315
classy people are trashy, especially back then. no joke, some dirty shit went down at those aristocrat parties, there was just more censorship in publishing and more sensitivity to the public eye.

>> No.2458334

>>2458317
And when I'm not I'm either working or reading.

>> No.2458341

>>2458334
mmmm
where do you work?

>> No.2458358

>There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about...and that is NOT being talked about.
Sounds like something an attention whore would say.

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2458364

>>2458341
Weasel bronzing factory.

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2458512

>>2458315
Well he was Irish, and even in the case of a ridiculously gay Irish playwright most Brits would cross over to the other side of the street if he were strolling by.

>>2458318
Hear, hear.

>>2458323
That just reminded me of that scene from the last episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margret, when the parliament dude (Dave's dad) was taking a shit over a nude woman encased in a glass box.

>> No.2458538

>>2458358
Not really. I am pretty sure everyone wants to be acknowledged in some way.