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"As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself."
"You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?"
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs."
"In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."
"What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."
"I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine."
"I walk the world in wonder."
"There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal."
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
"I can't stand people that do not take food seriously."
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."
"Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do."
"People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards."
"I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing it."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."