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Oscar Wilde
Health - silliest...
Health - silliest word in our language, and one knows well the popular idea of health the English country gentleman...
Scepticism is the...
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Source: Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian...
Cultivated leisure is...
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in...
If property had...
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we...
MRS ALLONBY. They...
MRS ALLONBY. They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Indeed? And...
To many, no...
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply...
Crying is the...
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Source: Duchess of...
It was a...
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as...
One is absolutely...
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good...
The amount of...
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply...
I know, of...
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the...
The great events...
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become...
On mechanical slavery,...
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The State is...
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Either that wallpaper...
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
Source: Attributed last words, as he lay dying...
The mere mechanical...
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be...
From the point...
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life,...
The past is...
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the...
The only thing...
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate...
The man who...
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Source:...