One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Subject:
Kindness   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
Subject:
Education   
Knowledge   
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Subject:
Enemy   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Subject:
Money   
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Subject:
Education   
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Subject:
Memory   
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Subject:
Civilization   
Nation   
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I am not young enough to know everything.
Subject:
Age   
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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Subject:
Argument & Debate   
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Subject:
Laughter   
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Subject:
Friendship   
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Subject:
Fashion   
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Subject:
Knowledge   
People   
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Subject:
Parents   
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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Subject:
Work   
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Subject:
Idea   
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Subject:
Poetry   
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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
Subject:
Death   
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Subject:
Art   
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People know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
Subject:
Life   
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