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Perfectly Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent…
- I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
- In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in…
- A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman…
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human…
- As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury…
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and…
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to…
- 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…
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting…
- How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- 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…
- The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
- You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You…
- It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of…
- It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's backthat are absolutely and entirely true.
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