Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and...

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you,...

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you,...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of...

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of...

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.