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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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