The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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Oh! Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
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You should study the Peerage. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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Do you believe all that is written in the newspapers? I do. Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.
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Published before 06/01/2004
Land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it.
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In a period like ours, inventing absolutely nothing is an act of pure genius. And, in a commercial period like ours, it indicates considerable physical strength.
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Nothing succeeds like excess.
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