Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar WildeTags: humor reading literature algernon
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
Oscar WildeTags: humor women beauty making-love algernon plainness
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar WildeHow you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
Tags: calm oscar-wilde muffins calmness heartlessness algernon heartless algy
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar WildeTags: algernon
If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar WildeTags: humor business algernon dinner-party
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