Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 - Anglo-Irish playwright and poet
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a dentist. It produces a false impression.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) act 1
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) [...]
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
Notebooks (1956) ‘Minority Report’
Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
A Little Book in C major (1916) p. [...]