Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
More Quotes from Oscar Wilde:
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, the world would have been different.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
Oscar Wilde
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