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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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