April – the Oscar Wilde’s month in Dublin
April is the month when “One City, One Book” campaign organized by Dublin City Council has chose to encourage people for reading Oscar Wilde and his book “The portrait of Dorian Grey”.
The campaign is running under the slogan “Go Wilde in the City” suggesting to everyone to ‘meet’ Oscar Wilde in cinemas, theaters or libraries.
The most known of his writings are The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Happy Price, De Profundis and many other stories.
Let’s keep in our mind Wilde’s work, with his own words:
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
And list may continue…but that we all should hope for our life is – as in the end, when God will send His Angels to bring Him the most precious things from the city – His Angels to bring Him our hearts, as they brought The Happy Prince’s heart (the only thing which remained and did not melt into the fire, from the entire Prince’s statue, as a symbol of his life charity).
http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/