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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and en...more

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly st...more

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Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, ...more

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they...more

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The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad ha...more

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To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lea...more

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The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been abl...more

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And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine....more

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Ugh!' snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, 'this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Gover...more

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No good deed goes unpunished.