A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
One can live for years sometimes without living at all. and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
For romantic young people…the world always looks best at a distance. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
You want a new excitement, Prince. Let me see – you have been married twice already; suppose you try falling in love for once. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
You’re young and wouldn’t be ill-favored either, had God or thy mother given thee another face. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
They say a good lawyer can break the law as often as he likes, and no one can say him nay. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
Colonel: Can she read and write? Peter: Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel: Then she is a dangerous woman. No peasant should be allowed to do anything of the kind. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
A cook and a diplomatist! an excellent parallel. If I had a son who was a fool I’d make him one or the other. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
I would sooner talk scandal in the drawing-room than treason in a cellar. Besides, I hate the common mob, who smell of garlic, smoke bad tobacco, get up early, and dine off one dish. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
What a Communist the Prince is! He would have an equal distribution of sin as well as property. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself. – Oscar Wilde Vera, or The Nihilists
