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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
  -- 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
• I like people better than principles, and I like people with no principles better than anything else in the world.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)...
• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
  One or the other of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- in Frank Harris Oscar Wilde...
• I have nothing to declare except my own genius. -- Oscar Wilde
• Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
  -- Minna Antrim (fl. 1900) from Naked Truths and Veiled Illusio...
• 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....
• My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
  -- Oscar Wilde...