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1888

★ 1.1

The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.2

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 1.2

Short story

One should always be a little improbable.

1891

★ 1.2

Epigrams · Journal

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

1894

★ 1.3

Play

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People · 1895

★ 1.3

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.3

Novel

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 1.3

Essay

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

1891

★ 1.9

Play

A Woman of No Importance · 1893

★ 1.9

Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.0

Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.0

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Play · Comedic play

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Lady Windermere's Fan · 1892

★ 2.0

Epigrams · Journal

Generosity is the essence of friendship.

1894

★ 2.0

Short story