Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Harmondsworth Penguin, 1984. 

Oscar Wilde stated in 1891 that A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. Has modern psychophar-macological research confirmed this description ... 

In this scene, Jonson indulges himself in the English penchant for self-mockery. Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, and John Osborne have continued that tradition into our time. 

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, scientists were still struggling to understand intermolecular forces, so it is doubtful that Oscar Wilde had a clear picture of intermolecular forces in mind when he wrote of the subtle affinity between chemical atoms in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Nonetheless, his description of subtle affinity is quite apt. Intermolecular forces are complex, consisting of attractions as well as repulsions. Intermolecular attractions are those between water molecules that allow water to condense once it has been sufficiently cooled—and intermolecular repulsions are what make water feel like a solid mass when it is forcefully encountered. (Have you ever been knocked over by a wave ) If it were not for intermolecular attractions, our bodies would vaporize into gases, and if it were not for intermolecular repulsions, we would collapse into unimpressive puddles. 

C Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes Oscar Wilde)... 

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it —Oscar Wilde, writer... 

Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe, Miss Marple or Columbo—the stories in which these characters appear all manage to delight us by reassuring us. The victim is usually only slightly known or not very well liked. The world seems better off without him, or else he is so sorely missed that tracking his (or her) murderer will be, in Oscar Wilde s words, more than a duty, it will be a pleasure. 

According to Meyer and Oscar Wilde, mysteries provide another, secondary, source of pleasure. What is that ... 

Of whom did Oscar Wilde once say, He hasn t a single redeeming... 

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the spirit of ennui that had gripped the French Romantic writers of the mid-nineteenth century crossed the English Channel and settled on a coterie of Enghsh writers such as Arthur Symons, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Oscar Wilde, and Havelock Elhs. Yeats called them the "Tragic Generation". 

The playwright Oscar Wilde once said that one s real life is often the life one does not lead. If this is true of daydreamers, it is also true of artists, whose "real life" is often revealed only in their work. For example, the writer/director Jean Cocteau suffered at times from a disfiguring and painful skin condition. Very likely because of this, his profound identification with the character of the Beast in his 1945 rendition of Beauty and the Beast helped shape the writing and performance of the "monster s" suffering so that it is as authentic and moving to audiences now, as it was almost 60 years ago. 

Juan Carlos Martinez-Zaldivar s The Story of the Red Rose is based on a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde. Every effort is made to be faithful to the fairy tale. This is the story of how red roses came to be, and it depends on the interplay of humans with creatures who are partially human, partially nymphlike, called "nighting birds." The time is the distant past. A scientific human pursues the Infanta (princess). She asks of him a red rose to match her dress at the ball where they will dance together (if her request is met). But red roses do not exist. She has set him an impossible task. 

London smog was an object of fascination. A recent study explains artistic depictions of the murk—by painter Claude Monet and a multitude of writers—through the chemistry of coal tar, the source of the dye chemicals that were so important to the early study of environmental cancer. The yellow morning fog, Oscar Wilde s ochre-coloured hay, was tinted by tars in the smoke of household coal furnaces that burned at low temperature. By afternoon, the dark smoke from hotter-burning industrial furnaces would turn the smog to brown or black.3... 

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde, f. by Alvin Redman Wilde at his most brilliant, in 1000 epigrams exposing weaknesses and hypocrisies of civilized" society. Divided into 4g categories—sin, wealth, women, America, etc.—to aid writers, speakers. Includes excerpts from his trials, books, plays, criticism. Formerly The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde." Introduction by Vyvyan Holland, Wilde s only living son. Introductory essay by editor. 260pp. 5 x 8. Paperbound 1.00... 

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at. — Oscar Wilde... 

Truth is rarely pure, and never simple.—Oscar Wilde... 

Tolstoy edited by Donna Tussing Orwin Mark Twain edited by Forrest G. Robinson Virgil edited by Charles Martindale Voltaire edited by Nicholas Cronk Edith Wharton edited by Millicent Bell Walt Whitman edited by Ezra Greenspan Oscar Wilde edit by Peter Raby... 

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