Jack: Actually, I was found.
Lady Bracknell: Found?
Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag.
Lady Bracknell: A handbag?
Jack: Yes, it was...
[makes gestures]
Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Oscar Wilde

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: morality naughty wickedness

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: vanity sin

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Oscar Wilde

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: love

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Oscar Wilde

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He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Oscar Wilde

Tags: oscar-wilde the-picture-of-doran-gray

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