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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable.

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

"Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it."
"Why?" said the younger man, wearlily.
"Because" said Lord Henry passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, "one can survive anything nowadays except that".

Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the church they don't think.