Quote #188

And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
  2. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.
  3. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
  4. My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
  5. However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
  6. My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
  7. The only possible society is oneself.
  8. I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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