The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily. That is what fiction
means.
--Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest
means.
--Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest
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- It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from... - 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... - To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune;
to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde... - 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... - 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... - Duty, n:
What one expects from others.
--
Oscar... - It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.
People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar... - It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan... - Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar...
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- Be Yourself" is about the worst advice you can give to people.
Mark... - Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach
it faster,
too. --Lionel... - It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from... - Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin... - Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector...
