The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

The heart was made to be broken.

The heart was made to be broken.

Anybody can be good in the country

Anybody can be good in the country

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in...

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in...

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the...

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the...