Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
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The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.