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Oscar Wilde
Civilisation is not...
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...
Every woman is...
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Source: Lord...
Death and vulgarity...
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain...
The only difference...
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a...
There is something...
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the...
Children begin by...
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive...
Musical people are...
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is...
Good resolutions are...
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Women love us...
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic...
One can always...
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Source: Lord Henry,...
Talk to every...
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you...
Memory. . ....
Memory. . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Source: Miss Prism, in...
I adore simple...
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Source: Lord...
I love London...
I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and...
The worst form...
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny...
You should study...
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the...
The fact is,...
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is...
Duty is what...
Duty is what one expects from others.
Source: Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No...
The way of...
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become...
One can survive...
One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good...