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| Quote #1: | "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." |
| Quote #2: | "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." |
| Quote #3: | "Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go." |
| Quote #4: | "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." |
| Quote #5: | "Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." |
| Quote #6: | "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance." |
| Quote #7: | "True friends stab you in the front." |
| Quote #8: | "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." |
| Quote #9: | "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." |
| Quote #10: | "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." |
| Quote #11: | "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." |
| Quote #12: | "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." |
| Quote #13: | "Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword" |
| Quote #14: | "Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." |
| Quote #15: | "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." |
| Quote #16: | "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." |
| Quote #17: | "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." |
| Quote #18: | "Biography lends to death a new terror." |
| Quote #19: | "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her." |
| Quote #20: | "Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing." |
| Quote #21: | "I am not young enough to know everything." |
| Quote #22: | "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." |
| Quote #23: | "I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones." |
| Quote #24: | "Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much." |
| Quote #25: | "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." |
| Quote #26: | "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." |
| Quote #27: | "Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." |
| Quote #28: | "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." |
| Quote #29: | "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation." |
| Quote #30: | "Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace." |
| Quote #31: | "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." |
| Quote #32: | "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." |
| Quote #33: | "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." |
| Quote #34: | "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." |
| Quote #35: | "Why was I born with such contemporaries" |
| Quote #36: | "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar." |
| Quote #37: | "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." |
| Quote #38: | "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." |
| Quote #39: | "To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity." |
| Quote #40: | "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." |
| Quote #41: | "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." |
| Quote #42: | "The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." |
| Quote #43: | "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." |
| Quote #44: | "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." |
| Quote #45: | "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." |
| Quote #46: | "I can resist anything but temptation." |
| Quote #47: | "Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." |
| Quote #48: | "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." |
| Quote #49: | "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." |
| Quote #50: | "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." |
| Quote #51: | "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." |
| Quote #52: | "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." |
| Quote #53: | "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." |
| Quote #54: | "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness." |
| Quote #55: | "One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." |
| Quote #56: | "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." |
| Quote #57: | "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." |
| Quote #58: | "Only the shallow know themselves." |
| Quote #59: | "It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art." |
| Quote #60: | "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." |
| Quote #61: | "But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." |
| Quote #62: | "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." |
| Quote #63: | "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." |
| Quote #64: | "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." |
| Quote #65: | "Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years." |
| Quote #66: | "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." |
| Quote #67: | "I love acting. It is so much more real than life." |
| Quote #68: | "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." |
| Quote #69: | "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." |
| Quote #70: | "Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them." |
| Quote #71: | "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world." |
| Quote #72: | "There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." |
| Quote #73: | "The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional." |
| Quote #74: | "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected." |
| Quote #75: | "When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs." |
| Quote #76: | "One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing." |
| Quote #77: | "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." |
| Quote #78: | "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." |
| Quote #79: | "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." |
| Quote #80: | "There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." |
| Quote #81: | "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." |
| Quote #82: | "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." |
| Quote #83: | "I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means." |
| Quote #84: | "Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." |
| Quote #85: | "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects." |
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