All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
~ in The Importance of Being Earnest
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
~ Philip Guedalla
Biographies are bu the clothes and buttons of the man–the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~ Mark Twain
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet, but his books read.”
