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“A good husband makes a good wife at any time.”
Source: THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.
Source: Bad Behavior: Stories
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
“If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
“The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest