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Oscar Wilde
In the old...
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a...
He thinks like...
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
The stage is...
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to...
To make a...
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know...
A poet can...
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Source: Pall Mall Gazette (London,...
Work is the...
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Life...
Those who see...
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
Source: Phrases...
A truth ceases...
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
Source: Phrases...
While we look...
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to...
It is only...
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial...
Tread lightly, she...
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies...
Personality must be...
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not...
In his very...
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he...
I don't like...
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
To have friends,...
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something...
We Irish are...
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since...
A man who...
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Source: Referring...
When the gods...
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Source: Sir Robert...
A man's face...
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Source:...
If a man...
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at...