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Work is the curse of the drinking class. -Oscar Wilde. The man is the undisputed king of one-liners.
by lb1lf 7y ago
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-Oscar Wilde.
The man is the undisputed king of one-liners.
- univalent 7y agoOn fox hunting by English country gentlemen: “The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!”
- mjklin 7y agoI find that alcohol, when taken in sufficient quantities, can produce all the effects of drunkenness. - Oscar Wilde
- inflatableDodo 7y agoMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions, a quotation.
- cafard 7y agoDepends. It is said that once after Whistler got off a good line, Wilde said, "I wish I'd said that!", to which Whistler replied "Don't worry, Oscar, you will." In his Life of Waller, Samuel Johnson remarked of another one-liner "Such is the story, which I once heard of some other man. Pointed axioms, and acute replies, fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate." (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5098/5098-0.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5098/5098-0.txt)