More from Oscar Wilde

  1. 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 …
  2. Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
  3. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
  4. No gentleman ever has any money.
  5. It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on wh…
  6. When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, jus…
  7. Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't t…
  8. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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