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 I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays
Lady Windermere : Well, you kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening.
Lord Darlington : (smiling) Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments, They're the only things we can pay.
Lady Windermere : (shaking her head) No, I am talking very seriously.You mustn't laugh, I am quite serious. I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean
Lord Darlington : Ah, but I did mean them (takes tea which she offers him.)
Lady Windermere (gravely) I hope not, I should be sorry to have to quarrel with you, Lord Darlington. I like you very much, you know that. But I shouldn't like you at all if I thought you were what most other men are. Believe me, you are better than most other men, and I sometimes think you pretend to be worse.
Lord Darlington : We all have our little vanities, Lady Windermere.
Lady Windermere : (still seated at the table L.) Why do you make that your special one?
Lord Darlington : (still seated L.C.) Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad. Besides, there is this to be said. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
hmm...good guys finish last. lol
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Was Oscar ever asked the question: "Does this make me look fat"?
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Don't waste your time trying to impress women. If they're listening to you at all that's about as impressed as they're ever going to get.
Sanity is not statistical
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Sometimes I think people pretend to be bad in order to try and undo the hypocrisy of pretending to be good.
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The man never pretends to be bad, he IS bad. All of us are...
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as far as I'm concerned 'bad' is the new 'good' - don't knock men, I love 'em hehehe    http://youtu.be/dsUXAEzaC3Q
I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
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eveRy0Ne iS fRee t0 saY whateveR theY Like... aS a feMaLe, i'd juSt be caRefuL n0t t0 beLieve eveRythiNg i'm t0Ld...
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