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Humphreys, Christmas. (1901-1983). Early British popularizer of Buddhism and founder of the Buddhist Society, the oldest lay Buddhist organization in Europe. Born in London in 1901, Humphreys was the son of Sir Travers Humphreys (1867-1956), a barrister perhaps best known as the junior counsel in the prosecution of the Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Following in his father's footsteps, Humphreys studied law at Cambridge University and eventually became a senior prosecutor at the Old Bailey, London, the central criminal court, and later a circuit judge; he was also involved in the Tokyo war crimes trials as a prosecutor, a post he accepted so he could also further in Japan his studies of Buddhism. (Humphreys's later attempts to inject some Buddhist compassion into his courtroom led to him being called the "gentle judge," who gained a reputation for being lenient with felons. After handing down a six-month suspended sentence to an eighteen-year-old who had raped two women at knifepoint, the public outcry that ensued eventually led to his resignation from the bench in 1976.) Humphreys was interested in Buddhism from his youth and declared himself a Buddhist at age seventeen. In 1924, at the age of twenty-three, he founded the Buddhist Society, London, and served as its president until his death; he was also the first publisher of its journal, The Middle Way. Humphreys strongly advocated a nonsectarian approach to Buddhism, which embraced the individual schools of Buddhism as specific manifestations of the religion's central tenets. His interest in an overarching vision of the whole of the Buddhist tradition led him in 1945 to publish his famous Twelve Principles of Buddhism, which has been translated into fourteen languages. These principles focus on the need to recognize the conditioned nature of reality, the truth of impermanence and suffering, and the path that Buddhism provides to save oneself through "the intuition of the individual." A close associate of DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI and a contemporary of EDWARD CONZE, Humphreys himself wrote over thirty semischolarly and popular books and tracts on Buddhism, including Buddhism: An Introduction and Guide, published in 1951.
Lisp ::: (language) LISt Processing language.(Or mythically Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses). Artificial Intelligence's mother tongue, a symbolic, functional, recursive language based on the ideas of lambda-calculus, variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa.Data objects in Lisp are lists and atoms. Lists may contain lists and atoms. Atoms are either numbers or symbols. Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of functions with side-effects but there is a core of Lisp which is purely functional.All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.The original version was LISP 1, invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s. Lisp is actually variants are quite different in detail. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with C. See languages of choice.One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as COBOL and Ada, are full of unnecessary crocks. When the Right Thing has already been done once, there is no justification for bogosity in newer languages.See also Association of Lisp Users, Common Lisp, Franz Lisp, MacLisp, Portable Standard Lisp, Interlisp, Scheme, ELisp, Kamin's interpreters.[Jargon File] (1995-04-16)
Lisp "language" LISt Processing language. (Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses"). {Artificial Intelligence}'s mother tongue, a symbolic, {functional}, {recursive} language based on the ideas of {lambda-calculus}, variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa. Data objects in Lisp are lists and {atoms}. Lists may contain lists and atoms. Atoms are either numbers or symbols. Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of symbols which can be treated as data. Most implementations of Lisp allow functions with {side-effects} but there is a core of Lisp which is {purely functional}. All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave rise to {Alan Perlis}'s famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing". The original version was {LISP 1}, invented by {John McCarthy} "jmc@sail.stanford.edu" at {MIT} in the late 1950s. Lisp is actually older than any other {high level language} still in use except {Fortran}. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable change over the years. Modern variants are quite different in detail. The dominant {HLL} among hackers until the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with {C}. See {languages of choice}. One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada}, are full of unnecessary {crocks}. When the {Right Thing} has already been done once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer languages. See also {Association of Lisp Users}, {Common Lisp}, {Franz Lisp}, {MacLisp}, {Portable Standard Lisp}, {Interlisp}, {Scheme}, {ELisp}, {Kamin's interpreters}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-16)
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1:True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
2:The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
3:You can never be overdressed or overeducated. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
4:The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
5:Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
6:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
7:Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
8:A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
9:Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
10:how else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
11:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
12:I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
13:If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
14:The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
15:Without order nothing can exist, without chaos nothing can evolve.
~ Oscar Wilde, (check capitalization),#KEYS
16:I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
17:It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
18:You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
19:Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
20:LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ~ Alan Perlis, ,(take on an Oscar Wilde quote), #KEYS
21:To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
22:I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
23:A dreamer is man who can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
24:Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
25:You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
26:There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
27:If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such s the astounding stupidity of optimism.
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
28:There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." ~ Oscar Wilde, (1854 -1900), an Irish poet and playwright, Wikipedia., #KEYS
29:The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
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1:All art is quite useless. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 2:History is merely gossip. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 3:Who, being loved, is poor? ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 4:Everything popular is wrong. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 5:A kiss may ruin a human life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 6:All great ideas are dangerous. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 7:Irony is wasted on the stupid. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 8:Hatred is blind, as well as love. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 9:There is no sin except stupidity. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 10:A flower blossoms for its own joy. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 11:He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 12:White-seeded is her crimson mouth. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 13:Those whom the gods love grow young. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 14:Skepticism is the beginning of Faith. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 15:Biography lends to death a new terror. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 16:Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 17:Live the wonderful life that is in you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 18:Art never expresses anything but itself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 19:Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 20:Why was I born with such contemporaries? ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 21:I am not young enough to know everything. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 22:I drink to separate my body from my soul. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 23:I have nothing to declare except my genius. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 24:No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 25:Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 26:The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 27:Women are made to be loved, not understood. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 28:All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 29:I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 30:Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 31:The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 32:In married life three is company and two none. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 33:Some of my best friends are Oscar Wilde. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 34:This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 35:A good friend will always stab you in the front. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 36:The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 37:Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 38:God and other artists are always a little obscure. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 39:Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 40:The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 41:Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 42:Morality like art means a drawing a line someplace. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 43:Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 44:Consistency : The last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 45:Don't tempt me I can resist anything but temptation. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 46:Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 47:To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 48:Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 49:I have never given adoration to any body except myself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 50:A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 51:Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 52:Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 53:The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 54:Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 55:A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 56:One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 57:The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 58:The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 59:A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 60:He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 61:It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 62:They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 63:We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 64:Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 65:Action: The last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 66:Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 67:One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 68:To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 69:If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 70:It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 71:Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 72:Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 73:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 74:What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 75:Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 76:If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 77:I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 78:The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 79:Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 80:The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 81:The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 82:How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 83:I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 84:I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 85:The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 86:A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 87:Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 88:I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 89:An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 90:A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 91:I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 92:Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 93:The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 94:To give and not expect return that is what lies at the heart of love. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 95:After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 96:An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 97:A pessimist is one who when he has a choice of two evils chooses both. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 98:Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 99:Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 100:Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 101:The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 102:The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 103:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 104:Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 105:Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 106:Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 107:With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 108:I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 109:Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 110:One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 111:The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 112:The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 113:A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 114:Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 115:It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 116:Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 117:There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 118:Those who have much are often greedy, those who have little always share. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 119:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 120:The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 121:The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man does. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 122:The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 123:It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 124:It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 125:Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 126:The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 127:Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 128:The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 129:A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 130:I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 131:No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 132:All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 133:He [Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 134:No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 135:Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 136:He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 137:If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 138:One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 139:The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 140:When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 141:A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 142:I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 143:It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 144:Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 145:Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 146:Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 147:The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 148:All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 149:America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 150:I always like to know everything about my new friends and nothing about my old ones. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 151:It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 152:How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 153:Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 154:Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 155:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 156:It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 157:Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 158:Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 159:Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 160:In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 161:It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 162:Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 163:There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 164:A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 165:If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 166:The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 167:Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 168:Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 169:Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 170:Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 171:If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 172:All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 173:If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 174:It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 175:Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 176:What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 177:He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 178:There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 179:A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 180:It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 181:Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 182:No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 183:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 184:Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 185:I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 186:When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 187:In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 188:Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 189:Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 190:America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 191:Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 192:I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 193:Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 194:Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 195:Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 196:I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 197:There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 198:There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 199:Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 200:Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 201:It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 202:The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 203:Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 204:The English country gentleman galloping after a fox is the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 205:The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 206:Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 207:The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 208:While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 209:America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 210:Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 211:Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 212:The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 213:Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 214:By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 215:Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 216:The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 217:No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 218:The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is never read. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 219:I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 220:I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 221:When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 222:Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 223:She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes; that is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 224:When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 225:Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 226:Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 227:One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 228:The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 229:A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 230:If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 231:I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 232:The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 233:The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 234:I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 235:Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 236:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 237:The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 238:There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 239:Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 240:The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 241:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 242:The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 243:Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage which is never advisable. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 244:How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 245:I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 246:In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 247:Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 248:Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 249:I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 250:Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 251:If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 252:Know Thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be Thyself" shall be written. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 253:When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 254: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. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 255:The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 256:We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 257:I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 258:I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 259:It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 260:When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 261:I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 262:Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 263:There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 264:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 265:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 266:To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 267:If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 268:It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 269:A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 270:Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 271:Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 272:And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 273:There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 274:Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 275:The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 276:Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 277:Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 278:The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 279:It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 280:People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 281:The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 282:He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 283:Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 284:To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 285:Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 286:A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 287:Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 288:Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 289:Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 290:Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 291:Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 292:Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 293:Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 294:That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 295:In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 296:To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle- class respectability. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 297:In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 298: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, @wisdomtrove 299:While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 300:Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 301:Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 302:No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 303:In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 304:Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 305:What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 306:There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 307:When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only & *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:No crime is vulgar, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
2:All women are rebels. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
3:My wish isn't to mean ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
4:Liberty is the chosen ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
5:Love is easily killed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
6:Outcasts always mourn. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
7:To define is to limit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
8:Every woman is a rebel. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
9:Genius is born-not paid ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
10:History is only gossip. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
11:History is merely gossip ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
12:All art is quite useless. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
13:one pale woman all alone, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
14:Sphinxes without secrets. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
15:Time is a waste of money. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
16:What the hell is an oboe? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
17:Wisdom comes with winters ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
18:A mutual misunderstanding. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
19:Fantastic shadows of birds ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
20:In fact, I am never wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
21:Prism! Where is that baby? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
22:The only sin is stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
23:The sky was pure opal now. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
24:Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
25:Alas! it is a fearful thing ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
26:I walk the world in wonder. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
27:A kiss may ruin a human life ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
28:Art should never be popular. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
29:Divorces are made in heaven. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
30:Everything popular is wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
31:Hearts Live By Being Wounded ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
32:The Governor was strong upon ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
33:A burnt child loves the fire. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
34:Authority is quite degrading. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
35:Hearts are made to be broken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
36:Irony is wasted on the stupid ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
37:Most people are other people. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
38:One should always be in love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
39:The final mystery is oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
40:There's no sin but stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
41:The secret of life is in art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
42:All great ideas are dangerous. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
43:Always be a little unexpected. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
44:Bad manners make a journalist. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
45:I'm too old to know everything ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
46:Talent borrows, genius steals! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
47:Genius lasts longer than beauty ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
48:Life is a great disappointment. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
49:Nature constantly imitates art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
50:Nature is always behind the age ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
51:And if it feels good... Feel it! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
52:Credit is a young man's capital. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
53:Education is an admirable thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
54:Life would be dull without them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
55:No gentleman ever has any money. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
56:Only love can keep anyone alive. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
57:Punctuality is the thief of time ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
58:The heart was made to be broken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
59:The moon in her chariot of pearl ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
60:The supreme vice is shallowness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
61:To be premature is to be perfect ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
62:Alas, I am dying beyond my means. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
63:A mask tells us more than a face. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
64:Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
65:Hatred is blind, as well as love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
66:Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
67:I wrote when I did not know life; ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
68:Life is too short to learn German ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
69:Music is the perfect type of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
70:Only the shallow know themselves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
71:The best revenge is to live well. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
72:There is no sin except stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
73:To be popular I must be mediocre. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
74:A flower blossoms for its own joy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
75:America is one long expectoration. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
76:And thus we rust Life's iron chain ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
77:Art, like Nature, has her monsters ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
78:He hadn’t a single redeeming vice. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
79:I am happy in my prison of passion ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
80:I know not whether Laws be right, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
81:Most people are boring and stupid. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
82:Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
83:Life is too short to be in a hurry. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
84:Like strange mechanical grotesques, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
85:True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
86:Ah! somehow life is bigger after all ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
87:At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
88:Be yourself; everyone else is taken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
89:Charity creates a multitude of sins. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
90:Conscience makes egotists of us all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
91:Everything that is popular is wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
92:I was wrong. God's law is only Love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
93:Nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
94:One should absorb the color of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
95:Those whom the gods love grow young. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
96:True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
97:You are Beautiful when you are happy ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
98:Art only begins where Imitation ends. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
99:Cleverness becomes a public nuisance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
100:Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
101:Duty is what one expects from others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
102:Every woman is wrong until she cries. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
103:I have a simple taste, only the best. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
104:Industry is the root of all ugliness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
105:Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
106:The weather still continues charming. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
107:Truth is independent of facts always. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
108:When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
109:You know what a woman's curiosity is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
110:Youth is the only thing worth having. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
111:All art is at once surface and symbol. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
112:Art persists, it timelessly continues. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
113:Biography lends to death a new terror. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
114:Disobedience is man's original virtue. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
115:Each of us has heaven and hell in him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
116:History is a lie commonly agreed upon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
117:It is awfully hard work doing nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
118:It is what we fear that happens to us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
119:People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
120:Progress is the realization of utopia. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
121:She lives the poetry she cannot write. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
122:The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
123:The greatest of all sins is stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
124:The wild Bee reels from bough to bough ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
125:The world belongs to the discontented. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
126:What fire does not destroy, it hardens ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
127:Where your life leads you, you must go ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
128:Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
129:Any place you love is the world to you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
130:California is an Italy without its art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
131:Create yourself. Be yourself your poem. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
132:Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
133:It was only in the theatre that I lived ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
134:Live the wonderful life that is in you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
135:There is no Mystery so great as Misery. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
136:To be in love is to surpass one's self. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
137:To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
138:All criticism is a form of autobiography ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
139:America is not a country, it is a world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
140:Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
141:Art never expresses anything but itself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
142:Even things that are true can be proved. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
143:I never change, except in my affections. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
144:It is always the unreadable that occurs. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
145:Life is too short to be taken seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
146:Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
147:Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
148:Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
149:The curves of your lips rewrite history. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
150:There is only good art and mediocre art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
151:Why was I born with such contemporaries? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
152:Work is the curse of the drinking class. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
153:A gentleman never offends unintentionally ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
154:Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
155:Any place that we love becomes our world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
156:Before Turner there was no fog in London. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
157:Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
158:Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
159:Don't use big words. They mean so little. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
160:I am not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
161:I drink to separate my body from my soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
162:I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
163:It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
164:Life is like a box of terrible analogies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
165:Nothing worth learning can ever be taught ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
166:Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
167:One should always be a little improbable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
168:Only good questions deserve good answers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
169:There is nothing that art cannot express. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
170:We women adore failures. They lean on us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
171:When good Americans die they go to Paris. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
172:Who, being love, is poor? Oscar Wilde ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
173:A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
174:Everyone should keep someone else's diary. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
175:I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
176:Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
177:She is a peacock in everything but beauty! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
178:Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
179:The truth is never pure and rarely simple. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
180:The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
181:Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
182:Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
183:Bad artists always admire each others work. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
184:I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
185:I have nothing to declare except my genuis. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
186:Man is many things, but he is not rational. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
187:Men become old, but they never become good. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
188:No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
189:Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
190:Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
191:The one advantage of playing with fire...is ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
192:The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
193:What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
194:Women are made to be loved, not understood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
195:All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
196:Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
197:Circumstances should never alter principles! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
198:I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
199:I analyzed you, though you did not adore me. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
200:I live in terror of not being misunderstood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
201:Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
202:The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
203:The only thing I can't resist is temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
204:Todo arte es completamente inútil. OSCAR WILDE ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
205:Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
206:All bad art is the result of good intentions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
207:A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
208:Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
209:Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
210:I didn't have a life until I went up onstage. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
211:I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
212:I expect I shall have to die beyond my means. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
213:I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
214:Love is a misunderstanding between two fools. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
215:The aim of love is to love. No more, no less. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
216:The only proper intoxication is conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
217:The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
218:The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
219:You can never be overdressed or overeducated. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
220:Be yourself, because others are already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
221:Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
222:Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
223:Every thing to be true must become a religion. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
224:How does one cure the soul? Through the senses ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
225:I don't want to earn a living. I want to live. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
226:I'm not nearly young enough to know everything ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
227:In married life three is company and two none. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
228:Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
229:Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
230:The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
231:Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
232:Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
233:Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
234:I don't want to earn my living, I want to live. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
235:I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
236:I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
237:Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
238:Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
239:So lets knock a couple back and make some noise ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
240:The heart was made to be broken. –Oscar Wilde ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
241:The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
242:This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
243:To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
244:A good friend will always stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
245:Ah, on what little things does happiness depend. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
246:All love is true, but not all truth ... is love? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
247:Be moderate in all things, including moderation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
248:Experience is a question of instinct about life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
249:For one moment our lives met, our souls touched. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
250:Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
251:I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
252:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
253:Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
254:The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
255:The unread is always better than the unreadable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
256:The world is made by the singer for the dreamer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
257:Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
258:Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
259:But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
260:but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
261:Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
262:Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
263:Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
264:Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
265:I love acting. It is so much more real than life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
266:It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
267:Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
268:Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
269:One's only real life is the life one never leads. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
270:The best people to work for are me, myself and I. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
271:The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
272:The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
273:Where there is no love there is no understanding. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
274:A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
275:Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
276:Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
277:Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
278:God and other artists are always a little obscure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
279:I must remember that a good friend is a new world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
280:It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
281:Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
282:Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
283:My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
284:Never buy anything simply because it is expensive. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
285:No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
286:Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
287:Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
288:Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
289:The proper school to learn art is not life but art ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
290:The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
291:To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
292:Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
293:You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
294:you will always love, and you will always be loved ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
295:A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
296:Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
297:Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
298:I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
299:I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
300:It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
301:It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
302:I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
303:Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
304:Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
305:Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
306:Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
307:Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
308:Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
309:Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
310:The job of the critic is to report to us his moods. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
311:The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
312:The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
313:What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
314:An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
315:Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
316:Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
317:Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
318:It is only the sacred things that are worth touching ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
319:I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
320:Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
321:One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
322:Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
323:Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
324:Some people always know the price, but not the value ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
325:Some things are too important to be taken seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
326:The ages live in history through their anachronisms. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
327:To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
328:When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
329:I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
330:I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
331:I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
332:If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
333:If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
334:I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
335:Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
336:It is personalities not principles that move the age. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
337:The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
338:The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
339:The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde ~ S E Jakes, #NFDB
340:Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!) ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
341:We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
342:With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
343:A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
344:Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
345:Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
346:Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
347:Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
348:Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
349:I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
350:It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
351:It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
352:Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
353:Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
354:Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
355:Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
356:No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -Oscar Wilde ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
357:Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
358:Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
359:The great events of the world take place in the brain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
360:The only real people are the people who never existed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
361:The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
362:This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
363:You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
364:Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
365:Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
366:I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
367:I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
368:It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
369:Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
370:Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
371:The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
372:The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
373:The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
374:There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
375:There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
376:To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
377:To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
378:A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
379:A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
380:An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
381:Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
382:A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
383:A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
384:Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
385:God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
386:If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
387:I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
388:memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
389:Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
390:Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
391:When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
392:You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.] ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
393:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
394:An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
395:A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
396:Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
397:Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
398:Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
399:Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
400:God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
401:I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
402:I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
403:I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
404:Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
405:The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
406:The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
407:The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
408:The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
409:They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
410:True love is just like regular love, but with more truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
411:Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
412:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
413:A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
414:Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
415:His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
416:If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
417:I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
418:In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
419:It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
420:Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
421:Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
422:Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
423:Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
424:Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
425:Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
426:One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
427:She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
428:The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
429:The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
430:The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
431:What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
432:A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
433:And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
434:A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
435:I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
436:I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
437:I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
438:Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
439:Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
440:Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
441:Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
442:Some things are more precious because they don't last long. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
443:The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
444:The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
445:The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
446:The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
447:The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
448:The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
449:They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
450:Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
451:We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
452:We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
453:We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
454:When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
455:When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
456:You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
457:Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
458:I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
459:I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
460:If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
461:Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
462:Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
463:No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
464:Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
465:The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
466:The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
467:There are few things easier than to live badly and die well. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
468:There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
469:this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
470:Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
471:Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
472:An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
473:A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
474:Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
475:Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
476:Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
477:Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
478:Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
479:Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
480:He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
481:How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
482:However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
483:I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
484:I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
485:I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
486:Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
487:Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
488:One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
489:There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
490:They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
491:To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
492:Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
493:Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
494:Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod. ~ No l Coward, #NFDB
495:Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
496:Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
497:I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
498:I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
499:One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
500:Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
501:She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
502:The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
503:There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
504:The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
505:The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
506:To know anything about oneself one must know all about others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
507:To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
508:Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
509:Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
510:He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
511:I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
512:Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
513:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
514:In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
515:It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
516:It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
517:It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
518:Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
519:Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
520:Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
521:Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
522:The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
523:There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
524:The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
525:Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
526:To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
527:we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
528:Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
529:And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
530:A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
531:Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
532:George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
533:how else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
534:If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
535:I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
536:I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
537:It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
538:It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
539:It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
540:It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
541:Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
542:One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
543:Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
544:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
545:The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
546:The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
547:The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
548:The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
549:A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
550:A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
551:Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
552:Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
553:George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
554:He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
555:He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
556:I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
557:I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
558:I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
559:I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
560:Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
561:The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
562:The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
563:Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
564:We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
565:What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
566:A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
567:Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
568:Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
569:He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
570:He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
571:How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
572:I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
573:I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
574:It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
575:It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
576:I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
577:Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
578:My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
579:Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
580:Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.” -Oscar Wilde ~ Angela Roquet, #NFDB
581:Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
582:The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
583:The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
584:The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
585:Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
586:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
587:We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
588:What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
589:A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
590:Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
591:A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
592:Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
593:For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
594:I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
595:It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
596:Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
597:Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
598:The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
599:The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
600:We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
601:We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
602:With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
603:Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
604:Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
605:Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
606:Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
607:Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
608:I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
609:If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
610:Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
611:Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
612:The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
613:Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
614:A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
615:All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Oscar Wilde ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
616:A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. —Oscar Wilde ~ M C Beaton, #NFDB
617:Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
618:Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” OSCAR WILDE ~ Beatriz Williams, #NFDB
619:Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
620:I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
621:I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
622:I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
623:I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
624:I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
625:Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
626:One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
627:Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
628:Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
629:The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
630:Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
631:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
632:You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
633:You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
634:A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
635:After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
636:An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
637:Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
638:A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
639:Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
640:But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
641:Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. —Oscar Wilde ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
642:Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
643:If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
644:In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
645:Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
646:Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
647:More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
648:Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
649:Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
650:Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
651:Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
652:The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
653:The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
654:The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
655:To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
656:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
657:Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
658:Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
659:I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
660:I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
661:I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
662:No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
663:Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
664:The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
665:The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
666:The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
667:The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
668:Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
669:A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
670:Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
671:I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
672:I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
673:I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
674:It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
675:I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
676:Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
677:One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
678:Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
679:Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
680:The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
681:The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
682:The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
683:The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
684:The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
685:The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
686:To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
687:What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
688:A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
689:An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
690:Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
691:Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
692:In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
693:It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
694:It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
695:Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
696:Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
697:Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
698:Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
699:Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
700:Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
701:sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
702:The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
703:There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
704:There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
705:Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
706:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
707:When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
708:Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
709:Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
710:Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
711:Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde ~ Tricia O Malley, #NFDB
712:The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
713:We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. - Oscar Wilde ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
714:Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
715:An expert is an ordinary man away from home giving advice. —OSCAR WILDE ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
716:If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
717:I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
718:I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them to be real. —Oscar Wilde ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
719:I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
720:It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
721:Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
722:One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
723:The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
724:The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
725:The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
726:To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
727:What was it Oscar Wilde said?” “I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
728:If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
729:I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
730:It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
731:It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
732:[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
733:Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
734:Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
735:Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
736:The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
737:The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
738:The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
739:There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
740:The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
741:The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
742:Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
743:Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
744:It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
745:My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
746:Oscar Wilde’s comment about being able to resist everything except temptation. ~ Mark Pryor, #NFDB
747:The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
748:The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
749:The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
750:A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
751:Amarse a uno mismo es el principio de una historia de amor eterna. OSCAR WILDE ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
752:A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
753:Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
754:Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
755:I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
756:I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
757:I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
758:If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
759:I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
760:Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde ~ Tricia O Malley, #NFDB
761:No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
762:One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
763:Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
764:The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
765:The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
766:When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
767:An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
768:Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
769:If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
770:It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
771:Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
772:One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
773:She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
774:There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
775:We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
776:What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
777:Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
778:All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
779:A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
780:I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
781:If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
782:It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
783:No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
784:That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
785:The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
786:To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
787:And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
788:A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
789:Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
790:Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
791:I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
792:It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
793:It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
794:Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
795:No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
796:One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
797:Oscar Wilde said it's never the question that's indiscreet, only the answers. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
798:Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
799:The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
800:There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
801:The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
802:The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
803:The truth is the truth. ‘Rarely pure and never simple,’ as Oscar Wilde would say. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
804:When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
805:A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
806:A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. ~ Todd Haynes, #NFDB
807:Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
808:He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
809:I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
810:Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
811:If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
812:If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
813:If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
814:If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
815:In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
816:I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
817:Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
818:The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
819:The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —OSCAR WILDE ~ Jessica Fletcher, #NFDB
820:What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
821:When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
822:All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
823:Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
824:Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
825:He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
826:I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
827:If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
828:If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. Oscar Wilde ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
829:If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
830:It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
831:It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
832:It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
833:Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
834:Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
835:Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
836:My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
837:One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
838:Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
839:The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
840:The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
841:You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
842:Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
843:A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
844:All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
845:America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
846:And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
847:Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
848:As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
849:A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
850:I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
851:Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
852:No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
853:Oscar Wilde’s advice, “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
854:Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
855:She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
856:The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
857:The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
858:We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
859:A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
860:He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
861:I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
862:In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
863:Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
864:Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
865:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
866:The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
867:The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. —Oscar Wilde ~ Tonya Hurley, #NFDB
868:Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
869:When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
870:Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
871:A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
872:Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
873:How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
874:If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
875:I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
876:In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
877:It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
878:I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
879:Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
880:M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
881:Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
882:Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
883:The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
884:The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
885:There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
886:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. —Oscar Wilde ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
887:We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
888:Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
889:Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
890:By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
891:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
892:Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
893:It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
894:It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
895:Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
896:Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
897:Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
898:Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
899:The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
900:The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
901:Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
902:We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
903:Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
904:A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
905:An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
906:Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
907:Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
908:Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
909:«Hay gente que provoca felicidad allá donde va; otros, siempre que se van.» Oscar Wilde ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
910:I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
911:If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
912:In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
913:She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
914:There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
915:Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. –OSCAR WILDE ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
916:All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
917:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
918:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” –Oscar Wilde ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
919:A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
920:Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
921:I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
922:I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
923:I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
924:It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
925:Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
926:The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
927:The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
928:There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
929:To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
930:Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
931:Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
932:He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
933:I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
934:If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
935:If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
936:Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
937:Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
938:The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
939:When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
940:When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
941:After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
942:An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
943:As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
944:By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
945:Comme disait Oscar Wilde, les folies sont les seules choses qu'on ne regrette jamais ! ~ Laurent Gounelle, #NFDB
946:Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
947:Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
948:He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
949:I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
950:I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. ~ Elizabeth Banks, #NFDB
951:In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
952:Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
953:Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
954:Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
955:Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
956:The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
957:True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
958:We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
959:Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
960:What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
961:Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
962:If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
963:If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
964:"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others." ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
965:I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
966:It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
967:It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
968:My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
969:Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
970:The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
971:There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
972:To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
973:A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
974:All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
975:Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
976:Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
977:If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
978:In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
979:It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
980:Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
981:Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
982:Memory ...is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ~ Kevin Horsley Oscar Wilde This ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
983:Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
984:Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
985:She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
986:The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
987:The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
988:What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
989:When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
990:When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
991:Without order nothing can exist, without chaos nothing can evolve.
~ Oscar Wilde, (check capitalization),#NFDB
992:Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
993:Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
994:Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
995:He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
996:It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
997:It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
998:It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
999:Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1000:Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1001:Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. —OSCAR WILDE ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1002:The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1003:There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1004:They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1005:To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1006:Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1007:Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1008:Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1009:Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1010:ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1011:Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1012:I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1013:I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1014:I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1015:I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1016:It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1017:It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1018:Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1019:Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1020:Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895., #NFDB
1021:Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1022:Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1023:No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1024:Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1025:There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1026:The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1027:The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1028:Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1029:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1030:A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1031:Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1032:Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1033:For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1034:He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1035:I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1036:If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1037:It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1038:Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1039:Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1040:Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1041:Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1042:Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1043:The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1044:Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1045:We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1046:What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1047:When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1048:I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1049:I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1050:In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1051:I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1052:Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1053:Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1054:The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1055:The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1056:The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1057:The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1058:The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1059:Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1060:Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1061:A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1062:Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1063:I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1064:Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1065:Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1066:Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1067:Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1068:Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1069:The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1070:The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1071:The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1072:There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1073:To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1074:When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1075:Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1076:Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1077:Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1078:An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1079:Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1080:At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1081:Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1082:Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1083:I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1084:I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1085:It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1086:It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1087:Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. —OSCAR WILDE ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1088:More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1089:Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1090:Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1091:Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1092:They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1093:To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1094:To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1095:You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1096:Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1097:I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1098:Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1099:The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1100:There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1101:You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1102:You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1103:A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1104:He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1105:I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1106:If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1107:Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1108:Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1109:Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1110:The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1111:There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1112:The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1113:Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1114:Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1115:I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1116:Lewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it. ~ Barbara Vine, #NFDB
1117:Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1118:Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1119:Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1120:One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1121:Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1122:Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1123:The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1124:The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1125:There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1126:The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1127:American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1128:For as Oscar Wilde once said, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
1129:It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1130:Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1131:My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1132:Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. —Oscar Wilde ~ Philip Jenkins, #NFDB
1133:The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1134:The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1135:The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1136:The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1137:We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1138:Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1139:Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1140:Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1141:Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1142:How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1143:I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1144:I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1145:I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1146:I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1147:LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ~ Alan Perlis, ,(take on an Oscar Wilde quote), #NFDB
1148:Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1149:There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1150:You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1151:Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1152:If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1153:Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1154:I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1155:Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1156:I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1157:Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1158:No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1159:On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1160:The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1161:Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1162:To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1163:We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1164:Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. —Oscar Wilde ~ M C Beaton, #NFDB
1165:Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1166:And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1167:As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1168:A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1169:Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1170:I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1171:Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1172:To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1173:While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1174:America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1175:Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1176:I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1177:Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1178:One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1179:Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1180:Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1181:She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1182:Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1183:Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1184:I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1185:Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1186:Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1187:The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1188:The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1189:To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1190:With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1191:Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1192:He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1193:His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1194:I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1195:People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1196:The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1197:The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1198:The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1199:To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1200:To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1201:But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1202:By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1203:Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1204:I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1205:Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1206:Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1207:One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1208:One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1209:One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1210:Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1211:People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1212:The exquisite art of idleness is one of the most important things that any university can teach. —OSCAR WILDE ~ Jerramy Fine, #NFDB
1213:The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1214:The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1215:The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1216:Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1217:I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1218:If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1219:It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1220:It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1221:I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1222:Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1223:The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1224:The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1225:Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. —Oscar Wilde ~ Jill Barnett, #NFDB
1226:Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1227:If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1228:I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1229:I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1230:I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1231:Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1232:The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1233:The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1234:The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1235:The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1236:The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1237:When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1238:Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1239:Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1240:I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1241:London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1242:Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1243:She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1244:The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1245:Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1246:Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1247:Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1248:Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1249:Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1250:Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner." —Oscar Wilde ~ Leslie Langtry, #NFDB
1251:Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1252:One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1253:One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1254:Oscar Wilde’s “beautiful untrue things” that save the imagination from falling into “careless habits of accuracy. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
1255:Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1256:Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late' ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1257:...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1258:All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1259:As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere.” The question is: where is the line? ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
1260:I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1261:It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1262:One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1263:The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. ~ Marco Tempest, #NFDB
1264:The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1265:The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1266:To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1267:Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde. ~ Mara Wilson, #NFDB
1268:All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1269:Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1270:For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1271:If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1272:I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1273:Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1274:The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1275:The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1276:The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1277:They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1278:Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1279:What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1280:All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1281:In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1282:Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde ~ Robert Bryndza, #NFDB
1283:Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1284:Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1285:The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1286:When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1287:Yet each man kills the thing he loves . . . The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.” —Oscar Wilde ~ Mary Burton, #NFDB
1288:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1289:By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1290:Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —Oscar Wilde ~ Ania Ahlborn, #NFDB
1291:Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1292:Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1293:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1294:The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1295:There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1296:At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1297:Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1298:Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1299:I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1300:I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1301:Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1302:Tal como observó Oscar Wilde: «Solamente hay una cosa en el mundo peor que hablen de ti, y es que no hablen de ti». ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1303:There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1304:The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1305:Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1306:As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1307:Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1308:Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —OSCAR WILDE, ~ Mikal Gilmore, #NFDB
1309:Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1310:I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1311:I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1312:Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary. ~ Duncan Roy, #NFDB
1313:Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1314:Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1315:As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1316:Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1317:Oscar Wilde once quipped, “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and the young know everything. ~ Ian Mortimer, #NFDB
1318:The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1319:A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1320:If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1321:I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1322:I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1323:There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1324:The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1325:It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1326: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, #NFDB
1327:Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1328:Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1329:Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1330:When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1331:Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1332:Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1333:Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1334:I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1335:It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1336:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1337:Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1338:Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1339:Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1340:The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1341:The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1342:The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1343:Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless...” —Oscar Wilde ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
1344:Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1345:How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1346: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, #NFDB
1347:I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1348:In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1349:Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1350:Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1351:The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1352:A dreamer is man who can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1353:And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1354:But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em." Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1355:It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1356:Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1357:Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1358:A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1359:Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1360:It reminded me of my dad’s favorite quote from Oscar Wilde. Everything in the world is about sex but sex. Sex is about power. ~ Crista McHugh, #NFDB
1361:Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1362:Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1363:Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1364:Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1365:There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1366:To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1367:What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1368:And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1369:Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1370:If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1371:Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1372:Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1373:Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1374:What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan ~ Burton G Malkiel,#NFDB
1375:You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1376:If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1377:I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1378:Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1379:The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1380:The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1381:Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1382:We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1383:What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1384:When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1385:You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1386: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. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1387:All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1388:All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1389:Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1390:Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1391:Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1392:Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207 ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1393:Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1394:The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1395:Thoạt tiên người đàn bà tìm cách chống đỡ lại sựi ve vãn của người đàn ông. Sau đó, họ tìm cách ngản cản hắn chạy trốn [Oscar Wilde] ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1396:To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1397:We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1398:A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1399:Marriage,' said Oscar Wilde, 'is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.' Uncle Bertie made his exit in the Preface. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
1400:Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1401:Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1402:You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1403:I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1404: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, #NFDB
1405:There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1406:When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1407:When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1408:While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1409:As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. ~ Frederic Raphael, #NFDB
1410:In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1411:In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1412:It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1413:The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1414:Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1415:And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1416:And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1417:I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1418:In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1419:Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1420:Oscar Wilde wrote, “In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it.” When ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
1421:Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1422:The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1423:When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1424:I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1425:The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1426:Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1427:What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
1428:What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1429:Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1430:And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1431:It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1432:Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1433:No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1434:Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1435:You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on. ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
1436:As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1437:For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1438:I’ve always hated business breakfasts; I believe Oscar Wilde had a point when he said that only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~ Joseph Finder, #NFDB
1439:Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1440:The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1441:I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1442:If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1443:If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1444:I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1445:To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1446:Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1447:And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1448:Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1449:He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1450:The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1451:There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Preface., #NFDB
1452:After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1453:Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1454:JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1455:Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1456:No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1457:There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1458:We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1459:What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1460:Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1461:A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1462:Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1463:No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1464:Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: “A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ~ Leslie Jamison, #NFDB
1465:The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1466:the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1467:Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’
‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. ~ Jamie O Neill,#NFDB
1468:Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1469:"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir." ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1470:Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1471:Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1472:Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1473:There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1474:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1475:And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1476:Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1477: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, #NFDB
1478:I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1479:I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, You wouldn’t care about what other people thought about you if you realized how seldom they actually did. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
1480:Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1481:Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1482:The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1483:I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1484:It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
1485:The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1486:When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1487:Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms.” Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol ~ Mark Simpson, #NFDB
1488:Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1489:Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1490:I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1491:Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1492: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, #NFDB
1493:We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1494:But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1495:Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1496:If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1497:I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1498:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897)., #NFDB
1499:My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1500:Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
7 Integral Yoga
2 Occultism
2 Fiction
3 Nolini Kanta Gupta
3 A B Purani
2 H P Lovecraft
2 Aleister Crowley
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
2 Lovecraft - Poems
1.01 - An Accomplished Westerner, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Paul's School, where he had enrolled, was so surprised at the aptitude of his young student that he personally coached him in Greek. Three years later, Sri Aurobindo could skip half his classes and spend most of his time engrossed in his favorite occupation:reading. Nothing seemed to escape this voracious adolescent (except cricket, which held as little interest for him as Sunday school.) Shelley and "Prometheus Unbound," the French poets, Homer, Aristophanes, and soon all of European thought for he quickly came to master enough German and Italian to read Dante and Goe the in the original peopled a solitude of which he has said nothing. He never sought to form relationships, while Manmohan, the second brother, roamed through London in the company of his friend Oscar Wilde and would make a name for himself in English poetry. Each of the three brothers led his separate life. However, there was nothing austere about Sri Aurobindo, and certainly nothing of the puritan (the prurient,8 as he called it); it was just that he was "elsewhere," and his world was 6
Life of Sri Aurobindo, 8
1.22 - How to Learn the Practice of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
Instance: Saturn in the M.C. is said to cause a spectacular rise in a man's career, ending in an equally notable crash. Examples: Napoleon I and III, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe, Hitler. Look for figures with Saturn thus placed, whose natives have jogged along equably and died in the odour of sanctity. Find out why what worked in some cases failed in the others.
By the time you have studied (say) 500 nativities you will be already a fairly competent judge. Work your bloody guns! as Kipling says; get a friend just this once I allow you human intercourse to set up for you figures of historical importance, or with some outstanding characteristic (e.g. murderers, champions of sport, statesmen, monsters, philanthropists, heresiarchs) without telling you to whom it refers.
1f.lovecraft - Old Bugs, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Verlaine, and Oscar Wilde were applied to himself as well, and in the
short Indian summer of his glory there was talk of a renewed engagement
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
only to the hush that lay on Oscar Wildes name for a decade after his
disgrace, and in extent only to the fate of that sinful King of Runazar
2.05 - On Poetry, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Disciple: Was not Oscar Wilde his friend?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes, he was. Manmohan used to visit him very often in the evenings and he used to describe Manmohan in his Wildish way: "A young Indian panther in evening brown!"
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The idea of greatness of poetry is difficult to standardise. The French poet Villon, if you take his poems one by one, is equal in greatness to any other great poet, but if you take his work in a mass you can't justify his greatness. Petrarch has written only sonnets and that on one subject, and yet he is considered a great poet and given a place next to Dante. Simonides has not a single surviving complete poem, he is known by fragments and yet he is regarded as second only to Pindar who is called the greatest Greek lyricist. "The Hound of Heaven" is a far greater poem than any of Oscar Wilde's or Chesterton's.
26 SEPTEMBER 1943
2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
There was a tailor at Cambridge who used to tempt me with all sorts of clothes for suits and make me buy them; of course, he gave credit. Then I went to London. He somehow traced me there and found Manmohan and canvassed orders from him. Manmohan went in for a velvet suit, not staring red but aesthetic, and used to visit Oscar Wilde in that suit. After we came away to India, the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues! He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda State for recovering the sum from me and Manmohan. I had paid up all my dues and kept 4/- or so. I did not believe that I was bound to pay it, since he always charged me double. But as the Maharaja said I had better pay it, I paid.
Disciple: Did Manmohan follow your political career?
2.22 - 1941-1943, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: His judgments are not always sound and his quotations, though they seem striking at first, don't stand a second reading, so that they can't be taken as the best. For example, he speaks of Oscar Wilde, but he has not referred to the "Ballad of the Reading Gaol" which is one of the best things written in English. Also his estimate of Blunden's descriptions of nature photographic and true to Nature perhaps but it is very doubtful if they will survive.
Shakespeare you can go back to for a hundreth time. That is the test. T. S. Eliot will live, but only as a minor poet. The moderns have all got diction but it has no value without rhythm. They have no rhythm.
30.10 - The Greatness of Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The moderns may ask: "Is it obligatory that one should have a great soul in order to be, a great poet?" In the hoary past it was almost so. Valmiki, Vyasa and Homer rightly deserve to fall into that category. But the ancient Latin Catullus, the French poet Villon of the medieval age, most of the 'Satanic' poets of the Romantic age, and Oscar Wilde and Rimbaud of the present age - none of them are great souls or possess anything remarkably spiritual in their nature. But on that score can we ever deny or belittle their poetic genius? True, ethics and aesthetics are two radically different things, At times these two may act together. Aesthetics may come into prominence from time to time under the guidance of ethics or take its support. But there is no indivisible relation between the two.
It is here that a great confusion arises for the admirers of ethics and those of 'aesthetics. Ethics signifies morality, an ideal life and a correct conduct in one's dealings with others. But, as 'a matter of fact, we do not look upon the nature of the Psychic Being or the inner Self in that way. It is something deeper and higher than morality. Even in the absence of morality and good conduct the virtue of the inner Self can remain unimpaired. The virtue of the inner Self does not necessarily depend upon the good qualities of one's character. The Psychic Being is the true nature of the inherent consciousness in the being. Its manifestation may not take place in one's outer conduct or one's day-to-day activities, but it can be discerned in a peculiar turn of one's nature. Byron, in his outer life, was very uncomely and violent. But it was that self-same Byron who stood forth for the oppressed and offered his life for their freedom. Byron here represents the inner magnanimous heart. It is here, in this poetic utterance, that the urge of his inner Self has manifested itself:
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In fact, we never find vulgarity in the artistic creation of any true artist. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Oscar Wilde - these creators who dived deep into the very core of natural experiences never for once lost the decorum of their inner Being. Vulgarity has no place in their language, in the expression of their creativity. The style Baudelaire adopted was purely classical - 'aristo'. On the other hand, there are moralists and religious people who badly lack the virtue of the inner Being. In all their activities rusticity and lack of culture are in abundance. The fragrance of the inner Being can neither be learnt nor acquired. It comes down with man from another world - "cometh from afar" - its manifestation takes place only in man's refined taste. Vulgarity is always wanting in genuine taste. It is, as it were, a gross tongue that gives almost an equal value to the juice of a grape and that of a corn-seed.
It is really deplorable that the ideal of vulgarity, the King of kings in expressing vulgar ideas, is an Indian. His name must needs be mentioned, for his creations are replete with vulgarity and they are spread all around like poisonous air. It is not that at present he lacks disciples and worshippers. Now who is that notability? He is our Ravi Varma. Curiously enough, his themes are mostly taken from the Puranas, that is to say, his heroes and heroines are the gods and goddesses. But what of that? He has seen them in his own light - with the eyes of an ultra-modern vulgarian. Just recollect to your memory his painting, The Descent of the Ganges.What does Mahadeva look like? He is a great wrestler like Gama or Kikkar Singh but with matted hair, wearing a tiger skin; he stands gazing at the sky with his legs apart. And the river Ganges? A film star with her hair dishevelled jumps out of an aeroplane and glides down! And colour? It is sheer gaudiness. I do not know if the vivid expression of vulgarity has attained a better perfection anywhere else than in the works of Ravi Varma. No doubt, there is a plebeian literature as well as a plebeian art which is simple to the extreme. These are the immature creations of the immature creator, who do not make a high claim to display in their creations. Neither do they have any ambition to do so. They express perfectly what they are. But in the painting of Ravi Varma there is an extravagant endeavour to display something infinitely more than what one actually possesses. So the presence of vulgarity is simply unbearable, nay, past correction.
3.19 - Of Dramatic Rituals, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
the dance and the beheading, on the lines of Oscar Wildes drama [i.e. Salome],
Peter Paul being cast for the part of John the Baptist. This ceremony was devised
32.11 - Life and Self-Control (A Letter), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In general, life is the play-field of the senses. If self-control implies moving away from the senses, then it is not possible for it to have a place in life. But self-control may mean keeping the senses under control, under a system of rule and discipline. This is the popular sense of self-control: it is a graded withdrawal, a first step towards detachment. This is also how it developed in India. But, as a matter of fact, this popular approach to self-control is not India's speciality alone. Europe has given it a recognised place, not only in the Christian religious life but in her worldly life too. But it will not do to forget that the untrammelled freedom of the senses and their unbridled license have been accepted as an ideal specially in modern times, and it is confined to a particular community. What they are now attempting to reject as a bourgeois trait was one day an aid in the building up of the Euorpean society. To be sure, Europe was not so inclined towards detachment as India. Europe has gone in for the cultivation of the senses, but that does not mean that she has been sticking to an excessive and disorderly play of the senses. Neither Byron nor Oscar Wilde is the ultimate ideal of Europe. When the famous novelist Balzac used to sit down to write he would do so in a lonely place in a monk's tunic in order to help his one-pointed concentration. Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander were no helpless slaves of their senses. In fact, no country or race can build its greatness except on the foundation of self-control. It is not that self-control must necessarily be self-mortification. There can be a via media, and in ordinary life this is a necessity. Self-indulgence is the debit side. True, this side of Europe is much to the fore, but that leads one to think that she is living on her old capital, and it is not long before her capital runs short. The root of the capital is self-restraint, and it is the credit side, the side of accumulated power.
It may certainly be that the social, moral and other kinds of injunctions regarding control of the senses do not strictly apply any more to our modern life. Man's consciousness demands a wider and more liberal existence. Not a religion of mental conventions but a universal one founded on truth is what he wants. But that is altogether another matter. This problem and its solution will lead us into deeper waters. Hence we have to stop here.
33.07 - Alipore Jail, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How direct the touch of something eternally true, of a refuge unassailable, a fearless state and foundation unshaken was brought by the words of Vivekananda! They did in truth bring one near to the Self and impart strength, atmada, balada. Later, I read about Oscar Wilde and his experiences in jail, his De Profundis. Whenever I seemed to fall into some deep abyss, immediately there would surge up from the inner depths an aspiration for the heights. This for me was truly the darkest night before dawn.
One day, as I sat deeply brooding with a rather heavy weight on my head, suddenly there came the feeling of a something that was clear and bright and calm, "the horizons grew bright, the winds felt delightful," disah praseduh marutah vavuh sukhah. I sensed now as if there was nothing more to worry about. My release was destined, a release that was already manifest within me and in the wind and the sky.
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
NIRODBARAN: Was Oscar Wilde a friend of your brother?
SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. He used to visit him every evening and Wilde described
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staring red, but aesthetic. He used to go see Oscar Wilde in that suit. When
we came back to India, that tailor wrote to the Indian Government about the
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that the latter's mother visited him when she was on her death-bed at a distant place. But my brother was a poet, you must remember very imaginative. And, moreover, he was a friend of Oscar Wilde. (Laughter)
People say that one telepathises a mental idea and this makes the person
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One could hardly think of Oscar Wilde in jail and yet he went there. The
only thing such people do is to write immortal books in jail. There is Wilde's
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great poem one becomes a great poet. In that case Oscar Wilde and Chesterton are also great because they have each written a great poem.
SRI AUROBINDO: Thompson's poem is great in a peculiar way. Of course, if
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His motto was, like Oscar Wilde's, to write on anything he liked.
SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on how you write. Wilde would have been the last
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