Literary discovery : Oscar Wilde

Ok, I'm now wondering why I waited so long to get acquainted with Oscar Wilde's work. 'Coz this guy rocks ! Well I admit to have discovered him on audiobook. But one gotta do something to stay awake while working (plants get boring real fast, believe me!). So I "read" Canterville's Ghost and Picture of Dorian Gray. What a book ! I need to buy the paper version, fast! That Lord Henry character is a cynic after my own heart and Dorian Gray is such a moving narcissistic bastard (not to mention murderer and sadist) that one cannot help but like him. Actually all the characters are pretty delightful.
I highly recommend you give this book a try. Some passages can seem to drag but overall, I found it a quick "read."

Here are a few of my fav quotes (taken from this very helpful website http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/quotations/pmPictureDorian01.asp )

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

She tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.