~ Oscar Wilde Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

[MysteRy]

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

[MysteRy]

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

[MysteRy]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

[MysteRy]

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

[MysteRy]

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop all monsters and dust with everything priced above its proper value.

[MysteRy]

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

[MysteRy]

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

[MysteRy]

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

[MysteRy]

I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

[MysteRy]

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.

[MysteRy]

I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

[MysteRy]

Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made through disobedience and through rebellion.

[MysteRy]

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

[MysteRy]

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence their absolute incoherence their absurd want of meaning their entire lack of style.