Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired: he lies like a hyacinth on the sofa, and I worship him. (letter from Oscar Wilde, 1892 - quoted from Love in a dark time by Colm Toibin).
Weitere Zitate von Oscar Wilde
Zum Autor"There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance."
"Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that."
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it."
"I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."