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Sunday 9 June 2013
One can only give an unbiased opinion..
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
One can only give an unbiased opinion..
With an evening coat and a white tie
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
With an evening coat and a white tie
The American father is never seen in London
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
The American father is never seen in London
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard
What is a cynic?
I can't help detesting my relations
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
I can't help detesting my relations
One should not be too severe on English novels
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
One should not be too severe on English novels
The amount of women in London
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
The amount of women in London
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight
We are all in the gutter
In the old times
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
In the old times
Democracy means simply
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy means simply
All charming people
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
All charming people
Few parents nowadays pay any regard
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard
One should always play fair
Business engagement
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
Business engagement
It is a sad truth
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
It is a sad truth
One is absolutely sickened...
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
One is absolutely sickened...
Those who are faithful
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
Those who are faithful
The husbands of very beautiful women
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
The husbands of very beautiful women
To lose one parent
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune… to lose both seems like carelessness.
To lose one parent
Only people who look dull
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Only people who look dull
Noblest motives
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Noblest motives
Punctuality is the thief of time
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
Punctuality is the thief of time
Public Opinion...
Public Opinion… an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Public Opinion...
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world
Nowadays people know the price
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nowadays people know the price
When I was young
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
When I was young
In modern life
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
In modern life
No work of art ever puts forward views
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
No work of art ever puts forward views
I like to do all the talking myself
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
I like to do all the talking myself
Pray don't talk to me
Pray don’t talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
Pray don't talk to me
I know not whether Laws be right
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
I know not whether Laws be right
Disobedience
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Disobedience
The English public, as a mass..
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
The English public, as a mass..
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure
As long as war is regarded as wicked
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it’s fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
As long as war is regarded as wicked
Harsh criticisms
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
Harsh criticisms
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves
One should never make one's debut
One should never make one’s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age.
One should never make one's debut
Man is a rational animal
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Man is a rational animal
Saturday 8 June 2013
Monday 3 June 2013
Trust is like a sticker
Trust is like a sticker, once it is removed, it may stick again,but not as strong as it holds when you first applied.
(Anonymous)
Trust is like a sticker
Sunday 2 June 2013
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit
value of an idea
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
value of an idea
value of an idea
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
value of an idea
Conversation should touch everything
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Conversation should touch everything
The good ended happily
The strength of women comes
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
The strength of women comes
Each of the professions means a prejudice
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Each of the professions means a prejudice
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business
It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business
I have found that all ugly things...
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
I have found that all ugly things...
Art is not to be taught in Academies
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Art is not to be taught in Academies
Talk to every woman as if you loved her
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Talk to every woman as if you loved her
Everybody who is incapable of..
A caprice and A life-long passion
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
A caprice and A life-long passion
Bad artists always admire each other's work
Bad artists always admire each other’s work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Bad artists always admire each other's work
The strength of women comes
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
The strength of women comes
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Women love us for our defects
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Women love us for our defects
Art to life
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
art to life.
Art to life
One should never trust a woman
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
One should never trust a woman
Ordinary riches can be stolen
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Ordinary riches can be stolen
There is only one thing in the world
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
There is only one thing in the world
Education is an admirable thing
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing
Education is an admirable thing
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing
The past is of no importance
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
The past is of no importance
Keep love in your heart
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart
A man can be happy with any woman
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A man can be happy with any woman
It is better to be beautiful
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It is better to be beautiful
The books that the world calls immoral
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral
Long engagements
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable.
Long engagements
Children begin by loving their parents
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children begin by loving their parents
When a man has once loved a woman
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
When a man has once loved a woman
To live is the rarest thing
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To live is the rarest thing
Between men and women
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Between men and women
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