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House Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend…
- Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
- Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each…
- I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
- Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
- Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
- Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
- We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
- When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its…
- And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too…
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