Nowadays 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 WILDENowadays 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 WILDETo define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDEI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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 WILDEDeath 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 WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDEA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDEI can resist anything except temptation.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
OSCAR WILDEYou 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 WILDEThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDETo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
OSCAR WILDEA good friend will always stab you in the front.
OSCAR WILDEWho, being loved, is poor?
OSCAR WILDEEvery woman is a rebel.
OSCAR WILDE