One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
More Quotes from Oscar Wilde:
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.Oscar Wilde
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
Oscar Wilde
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Oscar Wilde
She tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant.
Oscar Wilde
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
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