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Oscar Wilde
We are all...
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Source: Lord...
When we are...
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Only mediocrities progress....
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than...
Murder is always...
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after...
Nowadays to be...
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Source: Lord Darlington, in Lady...
Examinations, sir, are...
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is...
The mind of...
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and...
There is no...
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for...
What a fuss...
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do...
There is only...
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked...
I adore political...
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk...
Men marry because...
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
We can have...
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often...
Nowadays most people...
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one...
The tragedy of...
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Source: Lord...
Fathers should be...
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
People who love...
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I...
Philanthropic people lose...
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing...
As long as...
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly...
The body sins...
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the...