
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: City of Bones
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that'
Whistler: 'You will, Oscar, you will.”
Source: posthumous published, L.C. Ingleby, Oscar Wilde (1907). This is a paraphrased version of the quotation that has come to be accepted. For a chronology of sources see Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/05/oscar-will/.
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 187.
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 312
Context: It is said that truthfulness alone constitutes the spiritual discipline of the Kaliyuga. If a man clings tenaciously to truth he ultimately realizes God. Without this regard for truth, one gradually loses everything. If by chance I say that I will go to the pine-grove, I must go there even if there is no further need of it, lest I lose my attachment to truth. After my vision of the Divine Mother, I prayed to Her, taking a flower in my hands: "Mother, here is Thy knowledge and here is Thy ignorance. Take them both, and give me only pure love. Here is Thy holiness and here is Thy unholiness. Take them both, Mother, and give me pure love. Here is Thy good and here is Thy evil. Take them both, Mother, and give me pure love. Here is Thy righteousness and here is Thy unrighteousness. Take them both, Mother, and give me pure love." I mentioned all these, but I could not say: "Mother, here is Thy truth and here is Thy falsehood. Take them both." I gave up everything at Her feet but could not bring myself to give up truth.
“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. xi
I've Been Waiting for You
Song lyrics, Neil Young (1968)
Answer given when he was asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison. Interview with Ted Kaczynski http://web.archive.org/web/20061003044754/www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk/profiles/ted.html
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