Plenty of Those Around

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day:1185354_1403423283209479_1686785885_n

BPR Editor’s Note: I love this poster, but the quote is actually from Voltaire, not Oscar Wilde.

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2 Responses to Plenty of Those Around

  1. Arlen Grossman says:
    August 18, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for the clarification, Colin. I always give credit to the person who said the quote first. By the way, if you like quotes, check out my quotationquotient.com web site.

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  2. Colin Smith says:
    August 18, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    You’re both right and wrong. Voltaire said it first. Oscar Wilde also said it. I suspect he stole it from Voltaire, since the wording is identical, albeit that Voltaire wrote in French. If Wilde translated it he could have been fairly confident of getting away with claiming it, since there were n’t the pedants around there are today. Like me, I suppose.

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