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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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The secret of life is in art.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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