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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.