Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde Famous Quotes
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything and when they grow older, they know it."
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.
"Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation."
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing."
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
"No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in
"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"I can believe anything, provided it is incredible."
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde Quotations
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
Belle Livingstone
One swallow does not make a summer.
Aristotle
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
Henry Elliot
"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets"
Jim
"A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'"
Alan Marshall Beck
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself."
William Shakespeare
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
Anthony Starr
"Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."
Ferris Bueller s Day Off