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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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears...
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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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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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
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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 You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.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.
