Quote #190
My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.
- My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
- And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?
- I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
- No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
- Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
- Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made…