"With an evening coat and a white..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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“If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.”
“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”
“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.”