Just included this book in my First Paragraph's blog reviews, and am determined to capture Elizabeth Adler's fine collection of quotes she uses to preface each section of Sailing to Capri and think this blog is the best place for that documentation. Food for thought.
No man is ever rich enough to buy back his past.
OSCAR WILDE
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE
The Importance of Being Earnest
Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen and that they all fit.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drowned with us in endless night.
ROBERT MERRICK
Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
We seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves.
ALBERT CAMUS
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we only owe the truth.
VOLTAIRE
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
OSCAR WILDE
The Importance of Being Earnest
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