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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• All art is quite useless. -- Oscar Wilde
• Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
• Either they go, or I do. -- Oscar Wilde, of his new bedroom curtains (attrib.), 1900
• You ought to be a doctor," he said to Turner, "as you always want people to do what they don't want to.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- 28 November 1900, two days before his death, -- when he was already rather ill....
• Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892)...
• It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public.
  It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone....
• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. -- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband