![]() ![]() chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever. "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" Oscar Wilde 3. Oscar Wilde 2.) A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. 1.) Be yourself everyone else is already taken. What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Īnd what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. The play was a great success, but the audience was a failure. ![]() I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful. OSCAR WILDE, attributed, Lying Fully Clothed Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.Įverything in the world is about sex except sex. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. ![]()
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