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Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I don’t mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The fatal errors of life are not due to man’s being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one’s finest moment. They are due to man’s being logical. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
One’s days were too brief to take the burden of another’s errors on one’s shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
For me, a male image that I’m really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you’re willing to die for it (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It is very vulgar to talk about one’s own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)