Quotes
Quotes - Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
