After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
OSCAR WILDEAfter a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
OSCAR WILDEWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
OSCAR WILDEAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity 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 WILDEExperience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDEEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
OSCAR WILDESome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
OSCAR WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEOne should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
OSCAR WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEHow 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 WILDEBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDEIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDE