Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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 moral...
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
Never regret thy fall,O Icarus of the fearless flight
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and defined the boundary line, the more perfect is the work of art; and the less keen and sha...
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hi...
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