Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Subject:
Sarcasm
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Subject:
Books
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Subject:
Reputation
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Subject:
Journalism
Work: The Critic as Artist, 1891
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Subject:
Democracy
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
Work: An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Subject:
Time
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Subject:
Belief
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Subject:
Music
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Subject:
Sarcasm
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Subject:
Conversation
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Subject:
Advice
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Subject:
Children
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Subject:
Ambition
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Subject:
Community
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