I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Quotes from An Ideal Husband — Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
23 quotes
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that is is not.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.