When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only...
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstance...
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and giv...
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.
MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!
MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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