Oscar Wilde Quotes About Manners
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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