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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.