Quote #165
I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painful…
- The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced…
- 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…
- If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.
- No gentleman ever has any money.
- Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the on…