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Oscar Wilde
The whole theory...
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no...
When one pays...
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
If one tells...
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Source: In...
She wore far...
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a...
I dislike arguments...
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
To lose one...
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...
I always pass...
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to...
Long engagements give...
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never...
I can't help...
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having...
Never speak disrespectfully...
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
Nowadays, all the...
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
I like persons...
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the...
Society exists only...
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Laughter is not...
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for...
Thirty-five is a...
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free...
I'm sure I...
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like...
A man can...
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: Lord...
The brotherhood of...
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating...
None of us...
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Source: Lord...
One's past is...
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.