Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+become+too+brilliant+Nothing+spoils+a+romance+so+much+as+a+sense+of+humour+in+the+woman%22+%22or+the+want+of+it+in+the+man%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“This too I know—and wise it were
If each could know the same—
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.”

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Oscar Wilde kniha The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. V, st. 29
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?”

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Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”

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Oscar Wilde

Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)

“I cannot understand your nature. If my nature had been made to suit your comprehension rather than my own requirements, I am afraid I would have made a very poor figure in the world.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”

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Oscar Wilde kniha The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.”

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Oscar Wilde kniha The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 3
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.”

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Oscar Wilde kniha The Decay of Lying

A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

“Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.”

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Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Mrs Cheveley, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

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Oscar Wilde

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage