Quotes
Quotes - Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
There is no sin except stupidity.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
I can resist anything except temptation.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
