Quotes from Oscar Wilde - A selective collection which you'll like
A little
sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man can be
happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Always
forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Anyone who
lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Fashion is a
form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Illusion is
the first of all pleasures.
Most modern
calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day
that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Whenever
people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Life is far
too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Scandal is
gossip made tedious by morality.
All great ideas
are dangerous.
The only way
to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
They spoil
every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Women are
made to be loved, not understood.
A gentleman
is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
A man who
does not think for himself does not think at all.
Consistency
is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Education is
an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught.
If there was
less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
A man’s face
is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
A thing is
not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A true
friend stabs you in the front.
All art is
quite useless.
An idea that
is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Between men
and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship,
love, but no friendship.
Bigamy is
having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Everything
popular is wrong.
Keep love in
your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers
aredead.
Life is
never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Life is too
important to be taken seriously.
Morality is
simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
One should
always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Seriousness
is the only refuge of the shallow.
Some cause
happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Women are
never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between
the sexes.
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!
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