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Oscar Wilde
It is because...
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...
What is mind...
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...
Simple pleasures ....
Simple pleasures . . . are the last refuge of the complex.
Source: A Woman of No...
There is nothing...
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything...
Scandal: gossip made...
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...
Nothing that is...
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...
Society often forgives...
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Source:...
Every portrait that...
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the...
Each man kills...
Each man kills the thing he loves.
Source: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' [For...
If this is...
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Whatever, in fact,...
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to...
Anybody can write...
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and...
Whatever harsh criticisms...
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of...
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
MRS ALLONBY. It ends with...
All charming people,...
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Conversation should touch...
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
If they have...
If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and...
A man who...
A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.
Twenty years of...
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public...
I should be...
I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.
Source: Explaining why he...