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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.»
«It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
dinner party, Parties, vulgar
«Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
and then some, luxurious, nil, resolutions
«In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
nowadays, old times, social rights
«Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abominably, conceited, horribly, husbands, tedious
«In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.»
«Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conspirator, conspirators, searched
«When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also»
«A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.»
«It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America, when they have their mothers and their manners»
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