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 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
-
-
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE -
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE -
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
OSCAR WILDE -
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDE -
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDE -
No good deed goes unpunished.
OSCAR WILDE -
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDE -
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDE -
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDE -
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
OSCAR WILDE -
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE -
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
OSCAR WILDE -
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
OSCAR WILDE -
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
OSCAR WILDE -
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
OSCAR WILDE