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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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