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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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I'm too old to know everything

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...more

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman