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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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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.

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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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