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Oscar Wilde

by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.




Quotes of the Day

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not

• Saint Augustine



Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    Indian Summer
    by Henry van Dyke
    A soft veil dims the tender skies, And half conceals from pensive eyes The bronzing tokens of the fall; A calmness broods upon the hills, And summer's parting dream distills