Quote #185
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The only possible society is oneself.
- Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
- Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
- No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
- All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
- And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?
- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.