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The wit of Oscar Wilde from Will & Guy.  You may know some of them but Wilde always bears repeating.

Oscar Wilde in his favourite coat. New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
• A true friend stabs you in the front.
• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing.
• Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
• America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
• There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• I am not young enough to know everything.
• Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Talking Wildely

I read this Oscar Wilde quote today:

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

He was a bit of a bitch, wasn’t he?

The quote reminded me of an Anglo-EU Translation Guide I once read.  I thought you might enjoy it.

 

Wilde Bus

Image by gorbould via Flickr

 

Describe the biggest risk you’ve ever taken (and what happened).

Making fun of the WordPress prompter.  I haven’t been booted out of my blog yet; but give it time.

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Write about the biggest secret you failed to keep.

I refer you to my post of 13 Feb.  Oscar Wilde knew me well.

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What non-exercise activity do you wish would keep you fit?

You all think I’m going to say ‘Eating Maltesers,’ don’t you?  Guess again.  And keep guessing until I hear something I like, then I’ll use that one.

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What is the strangest thing that’s ever happened to you on a bus?

The driver was pleasant.  Read all about it here.  And take note of how my blogging has improved.

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Go to your drafts folder and finish an old post.

What do you think this is?

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I Speak Truth: Don’t Trust Me

Have you ever lied about your age? Why?

I have never lied about my age.  I never saw the point.  I have always looked younger than I am: a pain at eighteen when I was the oldest in our group but the only one who had to show i.d. to get into a disco; not such a bother now.

How old do you think I am here?

Oscar Wilde once said:

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Those of you who’ve been reading my blog for a while know that Oscar is probably right.