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No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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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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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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I'm too old to know everything

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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