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1 " I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after "
― Gyles Brandreth , Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
2 " Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. "
3 " In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter’s eye and those who don’t. "
4 " Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. “I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne. "
5 " La personalidad es algo muy misterioso. No puede valorarse a un hombre por lo que hace. Puede cumplir la ley y ser despreciable. Puede incumplir la ley y aun así ser un caballero. Puede ser malo sin haber hecho nunca nada malo. Puede cometer un pecado contra la sociedad y tomar conciencia, gracias a ese pecado, de su propia perfección... "
6 " It is curious how men who are good friends, close friends, true friends, who may have been on the most intimate and familiar terms over any number of years, can nevertheless know next to nothing of one another’s love-lives. "
7 " He looked closely into Vyvyan’s round and smiling face and said solemnly, “Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. "
8 " Gerard Bellotti was not a prepossessing sight, nor did he have the appearance of a natural roller-skater: he was grotesquely corpulent. "
9 " Mr. Bellotti sounds interesting,” I said, amused. “No,” replied Oscar seriously, “Bellotti is complex without being interesting. "
