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 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 WILDEIf you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
OSCAR WILDEWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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 WILDESelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEThere is no sin except stupidity.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDETo lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDEI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDETo define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDENever love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
OSCAR WILDE