Oscar Wilde Quotes about Purpose
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.230, Oxford Paperbacks
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation
