One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
From Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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