The Harsh Truth, courtesy of Oscar Wilde

The most important consolation that women find in modern life is taking someone else’s admirer when one loses one’s own.

JACK: I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.                                                                                 ALGERNON: Women only do that when they called each other a lot of other things first.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or tedious.

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied.

I believe a most serious problem for the American people to consider is the cultivation of better manners.  It is the most noticeable, the most principal, defect in American civilisation.

If you enjoyed this post, check out a few of his wicked burns.

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