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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. - [Apparel] Women are made to be loved, not understood. - [Women] Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. - [Women] Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects. - [Love] Work is the curse of the drinking class. - [Work] Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it. - [Money] The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. - A Woman of No Importance [Soul] The youth of America is their tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. - A Woman of No Importance (act I) [America] Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. - An Ideal Husband (act II) [Stupidity] Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is onself. - An Ideal Husband (act III) [Society] But when they had unloosed the linen band, Which swathed the Egyptian's body,--lo! was found, Closed in the wasted hollow of her hand, A little seed, which, sown in English ground, Did wondrous snow of starry blossoms bear, And spread rich odours through our springtide air. - Athanasia (st. 2) [Flowers] Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! What shall men say of thee. Before whose feet the worlds divide? - Ave Imperatrix [England] Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword. - Ballad of Reading Gaol [Crime] Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. - De Profundis [Sorrow] There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. - Dorian Gray (ch. III) [Women] I have my beauty,--you your Art-- Nay, do not start: One world was not enough for two Like me and you. - Her Voice [World] The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering. - Her Voice [Bees] Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. - Humanitad (st. 11) [Chrysanthemums] Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! - Humanitad (st. 60) [Life] All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. - Importance of Being Earnest (act I) [Motherhood] I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Importance of Being Earnest (act II) [Hypocrisy] The yellow fog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses' walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. - Impression du Matin [Morning] Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze. - In the Gold Room--A Harmony [Music] As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Intentions [War] As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded is her crimson mouth. - La Bella Donna della Mia Mente [Mouth] Displaying page 7 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
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