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Drink
I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken
in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.
(In Conversation)
Duty
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one
does oneself.
(A Woman of No Importance)
Education
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember
from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can
be taught.
(Intentions)
Enemies
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)
He [Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world, and none
of his friends like him.
(Quoted in Shaw, Sixteen Self Sketches)
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
English
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into
water.
(In Conversation)
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven,
in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Envy
It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies.
It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
Exercise
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast
in bed.
Excess/Moderation
Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds
like excess.
(A Woman of No Importance)
Experience
and Mistakes
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
(Lady Windermere's Fan)
Fair
play
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Fashion
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have
to alter it every six months.
Flirting
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands
is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing
one's clean linen in public.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Food
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that
these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world,
and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not
mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
(Max Beerbohm, letter to Reggie Turner)
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