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81 " Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. "
― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband
82 " I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what Ireally think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to bemisunderstood. "
83 " do not accept a sacrifice so great. If you do, you will live to repent it bitterly "
84 " Atunci cand zeii vor sa-i pedepseasca pe oameni, le indeplinesc dorintele. "
85 " One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards. "
86 " I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. "
87 " Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money?I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all. "
88 " Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. lord caversham. Hum! Which is Goring? Beautiful idiot, or the other thing? mabel chiltern. "
89 " Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. "
90 " She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence. "
91 " I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. "
92 " I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. lord "
93 " I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about. lord "
94 " In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary. "
95 " Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. "
96 " I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. mabel "
97 " And self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. They always go to the bad. "
98 " My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. "
99 " But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from hearsay.No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father? "
100 " Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us. "