Quotes 461 till 480 of 548.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) -
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
A Woman of No Importance -
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
The Canterville Ghost
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