The Wisdom of Paris Hilton Joins the “Oxford Dictionary of Quotations”

I know that storied book imprint Penguin Classics is really late on this one, but one must understand that the Complete and Annotated Paris Hilton does not complete and annotate itself.  These things require the measured finesse and judicious hand of many editors and academics.  Such efforts are a matter of course in presenting to the public intellect a body of work with the heft and import of hers.

But in the meantime, you may find one of her ever-illuminating apothegms in this year’s edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, where her words have been immortalized alongside those of other celebrated wits like Oscar Wilde and James Joyce.  Which quote got her into the dictionary?

“The arc of history is long but it bends toward justice.”

-Paris Hilton, to a gaggle of paparazzi, upon exiting L.A.’s Skye nightclub.

No, shoot, I’ve jumbled it up.  That one was Barack Obama.  Hers was, ”Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in.”

But the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations?  Does some shabby assortment of platitudes and pithy nothings really do her truth justice?  They should publish this in stone and affix to the side of the most serious-looking mountain in all the land, so that the descendants of our descendants will know the cut of man we had been.

Source: NYDN.