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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.