“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 1.
“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/.
“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)
“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. xi
Description of Eugene Terre'Blanche in the Face to Face column published on 31 January 1989.
Sunday Times
Book II, Chapter 4, "The Perfect Penitent"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed. Any theories we build up as to how Christ's death did all this are, in my view, quite secondary: mere plans or diagrams to be left alone if they do not help us, and, if they do help us, not to be confused with the thing itself.
