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Algernon Quotes

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Oscar Wilde
“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
“If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”
Oscar Wilde

Daniel Keyes
“I put flowers on Algernons grave about once a week. Mrs Flynn thinks Im crazy to put flowers on a mouses grave but I told her that Algernon was special.”
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algeron