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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.