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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
An Ideal Husband (1895) -
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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I am dying beyond my means.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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