Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Bullying Quotes

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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To define is to limit.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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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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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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