Quote of the Day -- 5th September 2007

[ 5 September 2007 ]

“It is absurd to divide people into good & bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde

I love this. Talk about a fabulous barometer for life. ‘Am I being charming or tedious? Hmmmm…’


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. I actually tend to classify people that way.. including me XD, but not allpeople are completelly tedious, they just are at random moments

    (gasp first cooment :D )

    <3 Diana · Sep 5, 11:58 AM · #

  2. My lord Gala – i definitely AGREE!! I’m in class at uni at the moment listening to a presentation… girl is not bad, just tedious… so i’m reading you instead – you’re never tedious!

    <3 Liz · Sep 5, 12:41 PM · #

  3. Yes, that would give quite a different perspective. It would damn near turn things right the opposite way around.
    Charming criminals and tedious christians.

    <3 Anna Rose · Sep 5, 01:07 PM · #

  4. i love oscar wilde!
    my favorite quote by him is:

    “fashion is an ugliness so intolerable, that it has to be changed every six months”

    hahah

    <3 ThursdayFriday · Sep 5, 01:26 PM · #

  5. LOL, I was just going to say what ThursdayFriday said : D

    Completely agree with you!!

    <3 mikitoru · Sep 5, 01:43 PM · #

  6. I love Mr. Wilde

    My favorite quote from him is on my desk so I can see it several times a day. It is suppossedly his dying words which were along the lines of: “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”

    Awesome!

    I agree with the “classifications”. It also helps you prioritize how you allocate your time – learning to say “No” if you really really don’t want to do something but feel like you are being guilted into doing something.

    It has helped me to live a far happier life and do only those things that have value to me.

    Luv
    Poochie
    www.shoedaydreams.com

    <3 Poochie · Sep 5, 02:56 PM · #

  7. Hmm… Can I be charmingly naughty?
    :3

    <3 Retro.Bunny · Sep 5, 03:17 PM · #

  8. One of my (many) favorite quotes from the Lemony Snicket Series is:

    “People aren’t either wicked or noble,” the hook-handed man said. “They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

    —-The Grim Grotto

    ;]

    <3 allison · Sep 5, 04:21 PM · #

  9. oscar wilde is the best.
    new strategy: what would oscar wilde say?

    <3 bluebird · Sep 5, 05:31 PM · #

  10. I recently picked up the Martin Fido illustrated Wilde biography – not as prestigious as the Ellmann one, but with lots of lovely pictures of fops in floppy bows! As well as being a wit, Oscar seems to have genuinely been a lovely, caring man. Yaay!

    I also found the biography of one of his contemporaries, Melbourne artist Charles Conder. Expect an article about both of them and others too, within a week!

    <3 Sir Frederick Chook · Sep 5, 06:32 PM · #

  11. Oscar is a wise chap for sure but nothing quite beats creating your own quotes to live by like…

    ‘The city, a concrete canvas, painted by few but touched by all’

    ‘Life is just one continuous dance… mine’s the salsa’

    ‘Luck is simply the sum total of location, desire and human engineering’

    <3 Robin Hosking · Sep 5, 06:42 PM · #

  12. Oh, I LOVE Oscar Wilde.
    His quotes are all so witty.
    “I can resist anything but temptation” is one of my favourite quotes.
    From the same play, I believe :]

    <3 Miri · Sep 5, 06:55 PM · #

  13. ahh, oscar wilde … is there anything he can’t do?

    <3 MJ · Sep 5, 07:24 PM · #

  14. yes, oscar wilde. such a dandy.

    i have a card on my wall that has a picture of a woman in a ridiculously huge skirt. underneath, there is an oscar wilde quote:

    “fashion is what one wears oneself. what is unfashionable is what other people wear.”

    he is full of fabulousness.

    <3 l3antha · Sep 5, 07:47 PM · #

  15. Hee! There’s my new email signature – thanks, Gala!
    I believe it was W.H. Auden who said that people are never right or wrong, only actions are. Interesting thought…

    <3 Ammu · Sep 5, 10:26 PM · #

  16. I LOVE that man. I visited his grave in Paris; it was completely covered with lipstick-kiss prints. If that’s not charming, I don’t know what is! (note to future Paris-travellers: visit him and eat a piece of good dark chocolate under the shadow of the angel and the kisses. it’s guaranteed to make your day fabulous.)

    <3 Market Chippie · Sep 6, 07:49 AM · #

  17. haha, this is one of my favourite oscar wilde quotes!! what a great man.

    <3 lalumiere · Sep 7, 06:25 AM · #

  18. I disagree, for once. But it’s still a fun frivolous idea!

    @ Market Chippie: awww, i wish i’d seen that!!

    <3 [a} · Sep 19, 11:55 AM · #
 

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