Fun Fav Quotes

[kathy stl]

Man, I'm on a role. I love quotes but have no memory for them (well I have no memory for anything). So I would love to hear your fav's. Great, funney, profound, whatever.

One of my fav's is from Oscar Wilde (I think - correct me if wrong) -

A matronly society woman says to Oscar Wilde, If you were my husband sir, I would flavor your coffee with poison.

To which he replies, And if I was your husband Madam, I would drink it.

I love it. Anybody wants to remind me who Oscar Wilde is, that would be cool too.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Bobtoad777]

Resentment: Is like taking poison and waiting for your adversary to die from it.

 

[DriveSouth]

Correction!

kathy -

I'll not argue with you about Oscar Wilde saying that, but-

I think that originally that story was attributed to Winston Churchill. The female in the story was the first woman ever elected to the British Parliment(her name escapes me now).

As you stated, her line was "If I were your wife, I'd poison your tea."

Churchill's response - "Madam if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

One more good one from the famous statesman - At a state dinner one evening Churchill had had too much to drink and called (I think the same woman) ugly. She accused him of being drunk his reply:

"Yes, but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly."

Like you, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The "poison" line is attributed to Churchill. The "ugly" line is just an old joke that's been attributed to everyone since Adam. (And isn't it The "Portrait" of Dorian Grey?")

Kathy, Oscar Wilde was a playwright and writer who sued for libel and lost, famously, over a hundred years ago, when his male lover's father (the Marquis of Queensbury -- who invented the boxing rules) accused him publicly of homosexuality (though it wasn't phrased that way in court). "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the most clever and well constructed plays in the English language (IMHO).

 

[Guest]

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hmm. You may be right. I can't recall, and I've always interchanged them myself.

 

[RonG]

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary is a great read. I like his definition of Vote, n: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

 

[kathy stl]

So Enjoying

Am loving this thread. I used to be an English lit major (one year a college which is way far gone) and I love hearing this stuff.

I think maybe it was Churchill who said the "poison" quote and I have heard the "ugly" one attributed to him too. Whoever said it, I love it.

The "vote" one couldn't be more timely though huh? How perfect. Try to call NPR and give em that one.

My all time fav? (and I may get this wrong which is pathetic) Is what I swore the day i got outa prison. From Hamlet when he decides to return to his kingdom and avenge the murder of his father, "from this day forth, let my thoughts be bloodey, or let them be nothing at all". But of course my thoughts haven't been bloodey at all, couldn't be less bloodey, I catch flies and carry them back outside. Hamlet did a better job of it.

Maybe is why I like BobToads quote. Resentment: Is like taking poison and waiting for your adversary to die from it.