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Someone posted a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde in the 'h2g2 Motto' thread:

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

My antennae jangled. Would Oscar have made such a use of the word 'like'?

Quick google: plenty of pages give this quote as one of Oscar's, none citing a specific source.

Googled again, for a quotation site, and found this wonderful engine: http://www.online-literature.com/quotes/quotations.php

Sure enough, the phrase "love anyone who treats" came up with no matches in the works of Oscar Wilde, or any other of their 267 covered authors for that matter.

Just to see that the thing worked, I entered the phrase "never love" and from Oscar Wilde's works it returned six uses:

The Importance of Being Earnest - Act 1
My own one, I have never loved any one in the world but you

The Duchess of Padua - Act III
You never loved me.
(~returned twice)

Lady Windermere's Fan - Act I
Don't say that, Margaret. I never loved any one in the whole world but you.

Vera, or the Nihilists - Prologue
She'll never love you unless you are always at her heels

A Woman of No Importance - Act II
swore to me positively on his knees that he had never loved any one before in the whole course

Panthea
pine to pine the eagle flies. Ay! had we never loved at all, who knows if yonder

(I have restored capitals and cleaned up these results a little.)

Wow. Got to love the technology

One of the features of the encyclopaedia of misinformation, Uncyclopedia is that entries have spurious quotations from Oscar Wilde. Perhaps one of these slipped into the world of "facts".

Just looked at Uncyclopedia's list of OW quotes. Here's just about the only repeatable one:

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a satirical Web site." ~ Oscar Wilde