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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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