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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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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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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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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.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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