Quotes
Quotes - Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
