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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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