Shit Oscar Wilde Said

[philosophybits]

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

[vox-anglosphere]

Oscar Wilde was full of witticisms until the very end..

[metamorphesque]

— Oscar Wilde 

[shitoscarwildesaid]

[horrorfilmdyke]

I am a faggot and a pointless animal and a strange individual

[allegedly-human]

Things Oscar Wilde would say

[sixbucks]

“I didn’t know Oscar Wilde was dead. I mean, his quotes feel so modern, so of our time.” ~Ted Lasso

[simplywrong]

F1 Drivers as Oscar Wilde Quotes

It's just a joke

[sixbucks]

A particularly well thought out F1 meme is a rare and beautiful thing.

A++++

[shitoscarwildesaid]

ShitOscarWildeSaid thanks you.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Oscars Wilde (via redjeep)

[summersweeet]

[skeletrender]

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

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Oscar Wilde

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[oligopsoneia-deactivated2018051]

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. In order to introduce another point of view, let us set against this position the following statement: human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. - Erich Fromm (x)

[bookriot]

Wilde’s reputation for cleverness in his writing and his speech has painted him as a unique character, so that often his modern audience is focused more on his personality than on his written work. He is one of the many people of his time treated horribly for his sexuality—something that The New Republic discusses with depth here.

And of course, we are pretty obsessed with Wilde quotes. I want to just spend a moment talking about one out of many. He said:

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

I love what this quote implies about how we see writers and artists. The concept of misbehaving comes in relation to societal expectations—if we didn’t have expectations placed on our behavior, then we wouldn’t have rules to break. But, applying the active concept of misbehaving to the less obvious movement of the mind, we recognize so many amazing human qualities—genius, imagination and internal freedom.

https://bookriot.com/2017/10/16/happy-birthday-oscar-wilde/

[vibrantbloom]

I’ll never stop being amused by how smug the Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin looks

[boy-so-pale]

[azspot]

[thequotejournals]

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Oscar Wilde (via wordsnquotes)

[harriscountypl]

If Shakespeare didn’t say it, then Oscar Wilde probably did. If neither Shakespeare nor Oscar Wilde said it, I’d bet on Sam Clemens (or maybe Dorothy Parker). Happy Birthday, Sam! http://bit.ly/2gxKby5

[shitoscarwildesaid]

I may be starting a new tumblr...

[nerdyfurywhispers-blog]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde (via nerdyfurywhispers)