Relations are simply a tedious pack of people,
who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), "The Importance of Being Earnest", 1895
who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), "The Importance of Being Earnest", 1895
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- Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest
knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earne... - It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne... - The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily.
That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne... - To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune
to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earne... - On an occaision of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak
one's mind.
It becomes a pleasure. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne... - Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally
dislike.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "An Ideal Husband" (1895)... - I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not
heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the
smallest sense of humanity.
Moral people, as they are termed, are simply beasts.... - He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. -- H.H. Munro
- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
the people.
-- Oscar Wilde...

