- 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... - 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... - I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
--Oscar Wilde, from Lady Windermere's Fa... - Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde... - Either the wallpaper goes or I do. -- Oscar Wilde, last word
- You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes
when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
-- Michael Wilding... - Twixt the optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll
The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole.... - The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. --John Woode
- On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. --Virginia Woolf, playwrite
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