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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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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