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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.