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Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 - Anglo-Irish playwright and poet
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a
dentist. It produces a false impression. The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. In married life three is company and two none. To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a
misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. All women become like their mothers. That is their
tragedy. No man does. That’s his. I hope you have not been leading a double life,
pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be
hypocrisy. Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are
perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts. CECILY: When I see a spade I call it a spade. GWENDOLEN: I am glad to say that I have never seen a
spade. 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. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is
always Judas who writes the biography. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. All art is immoral. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal
of it is absolutely fatal. I can resist everything except temptation. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at
least a dozen, and that they all fit. CECIL GRAHAM: What is a cynic? LORD DARLINGTON: A man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of
the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an
imperfect medium. There is only one thing in the world worse than being
talked about, and that is not being talked about. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But-it is
better to be good than to be ugly. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course,
but one cannot possibly admire them. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by
the people for the people. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox-the
unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they
judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. I have nothing to declare except my genius. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. He [Bernard Shaw] hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none
of his friends like him. Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond
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