Oscar Wilde Bunbury Quotes & Sayings

JACK
That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury.
ALGERNON
Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none.
JACK
That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years.
ALGERNON
Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time. — Oscar Wilde

well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago — Jon M. Sweeney

I'd never leave you, either. You know that, right? You know that I'd never hurt you. Just in case that's what you're really worried about. And if you wanted to stop, at any point ... if you want to - "
"I don't want to stop. I want to grab you."
"You want to what?"
She had to check. Maybe she'd hallucinated.
"I want to grab you. I want to grab you now, really bad. Is that okay?"
"Oh my God that is really, really okay — Charlotte Stein

[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods ... If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow ... either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work. — Joseph Chamberlain

In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy. — Heather O'Neill

Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life. — Oscar Wilde

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded.
Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity.
My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. — Oscar Wilde

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night. — Lisa Shearin

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. — Mahatma Gandhi

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that. — Oscar Wilde

Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. — Oscar Wilde

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool! — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice. — Oscar Wilde

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. — Oscar Wilde

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations. — Liya Kebede

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon ... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
What did he die of?
Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded! — Oscar Wilde

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd. — Oscar Wilde