Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mother Quotes, Father Quotes

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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