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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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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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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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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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