We Are All Of Us Lying In The Gutter

One response to we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars qthomasbower says.

We are all of us lying in the gutter.

I would hope we each will take the initiative and work on getting out of there as quickly as possible and trying to avoid going back there as best we can. One of my favorite quotes and the genesis for a satirical rewriting or perhaps i should say mis wording i uttered one night leaving a bar in san francicso. I was wondering why would oscar wilde say something like that. Some of us were dealt better hands than others some of us dealt hands way worse.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars oscar wilde lady windermere s fan tags. We are all just people living out a couple of years on a twirling rock that takes up only a fraction of space. The speaker is lord darlington variously described by othe. You ve heard this from your freegan and or squatter friends and the pretenders quote this in their song message of love pretentious factor.

These are ultimately the people who find success in life. We are all in the gutter. Darlington tells him we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars where you ve heard it. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We will all reach an inevitable demise but it is wholly and totally up to us what we do between the magical moment that we were brought into this earth and the end of our respective lives. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. We are all in the gutter means we all have our struggles hard times and life problems.

The quote comes from lady windermere s fan a play oscar wilde wrote early on in his career. It takes on a quite a different meaning from the other answers when you look at it in context. I bet the first line in the heading tipped you off as much as it did to me. And that we will seek help when we are having trouble on our own.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars oscar wilde we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars oscar wilde. May 12th 2010 at 3 36 am.