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No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Authority is quite degrading.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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It is so easy to convince others it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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