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«Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Begin, romance, romances, romancing, science, sentiment, settlement, settlements, The Settlement
«Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, fascinate, fascinates, fascinating, fellow, income, incomes, one use, permanent, poor, practical, privilege, profession, prosaic, rich, romance, romances, romancing, There is no, The Fellows, the poor, unemployed, use, wealthier, wealthiest, wealthy
«Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.»
«Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.»
«One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
intellectually, novels, relaxation, severe, unemployed
«The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
admirable, French Revolution, human error, Louis, permanency, predicate, predicated, rely, systems, The Admirable, the French, The French Revolution, XIV
«Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life»
«The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
flirt with, in public, scandalous, washing
«There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
favour, journalism, uneducated
«Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.»
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