"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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“You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”
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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
“In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.”
“Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.”