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Good v Bad
The good ended happily,and the bad unhappily. That is what
Fiction means.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Happiness
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good
we are not always happy.
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Health/Sickness
Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond
my means.
(at mention of huge fee for surgical operation)
Hope
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at
the stars.
(Lady Windermere's Fan)
Hunting
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the
unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
(A Woman of No Importance)
Ignorance
Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom
is gone.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Inventions
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true
artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
(Review May 1885)
Language
We have really everything in common with America nowadays
except, of course, language.
(The Canterville Ghost)
Last
Words
One of us must go.
(Attributed)
Leisure
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
(Fortnightly Review)
Loss
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune;
to lose both looks like carelessness.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Love
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
(An Ideal Husband)
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married
woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of
them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic
intellects.
Lower
Classes, Good Example and Losing Relations
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what
on earth is the use of them?
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
The extraordinary thing about the lower classes in England
is that they are always losing their relations. They are
extremely fortunate in that respect.
Oscar
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