A lot of people have attributed the following quote to him:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=you+don%27t+love+someone+for+their+looks&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ETkYU5_nKImqhAeuqID4Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=604#imgdii=_
Yet he died in 1900, about eight years before motor cars caught on as a consumer item. Are we going to hear that he went on the road with Jack Kerouac next?
What makes people think that Oscar Wilde would use the phrase "fancy car"?
2014-03-06 9:27 am
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2014-03-06 12:22 pm
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I have not the definitive answer because I am not at home and able to access the Oxford Dictionary of quotations.Car was used in the 19th century, however it usually meant 'Railway car' and I cannot for the life of me see our Oscar using it in that sense in this quote. It was occasionally used to mean 'Horse drawn car' but I think Mr. Wilde would have been too aware that not many used it at that time.
It is worth noting all the places it is posted are not quote sites, it looks like sheep following sheep without checking their sources.
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2014-03-06 3:15 pm
I agree with John - and remember that the quote doesn't say 'motor car' - just car.
A 'car' was used as an abbreviation for 'carriage' long before the first motor vehicles.
But for me, the real give-away is the word 'fancy'. This is generally an Americanism, and not in common usage in the UK in that sense. And it certainly doesn't sound like a word which Wilde would have used.
A 'car' was used as an abbreviation for 'carriage' long before the first motor vehicles.
But for me, the real give-away is the word 'fancy'. This is generally an Americanism, and not in common usage in the UK in that sense. And it certainly doesn't sound like a word which Wilde would have used.
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