Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““chairs. We are practising for an English Academy of Letters.” Lord”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs.” — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It was on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).” — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
“theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something." "You have lost your mind." "Say something less insulting.” — Laura Andersen Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image