Quote of the Day for Monday, October 12, 2026

…we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Lord Darlington, in Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, 1893

Our note: Lord Darlington, in the play's third act.

Verified in the full text of Lady Windermere's Fan on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #790

Painted the same decade: The Shepherd's Song, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891

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