Quotes
Quotes - Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves...
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
