Oscar Wilde Quotes, Girl Quotes, Drama Quotes

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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Credit is a young man's capital.

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