A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDEA bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDEHe has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
OSCAR WILDETo lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
OSCAR WILDEArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEMen always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
OSCAR WILDEEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDETo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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 WILDEQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDEEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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 WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDESome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
OSCAR WILDEMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
OSCAR WILDE