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Oscar Wilde
All women become...
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Thinking is the...
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other...
Truth is rarely...
Truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest,...
And yet, and...
And yet, and yet,
These Christs that die upon the barricades,
God knows it I am with them, in some...
Every man of...
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of...
CECILY. When I...
CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...
It is only...
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
In matters of...
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Source:...
Charity, dear Miss...
Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to...
Yet each man...
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a...
I never travel...
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the...
In married life...
In married life three is company and two is none.
Source: The Importance of Being...
I have invented...
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the...
The good ended...
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Source:...
Meredith is a...
Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning.
Source: The Critic as Artist, Pt...
It is an...
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and...
I choose my...
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good...
Really, if the...
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
I hope you...
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would...
Ah! Don't say...
Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be...