Author Topic: ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes ~ (Read 7048 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #120 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:07:32 AM »

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #121 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:07:59 AM »

Lots of people act well but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

MysteRy · « **Reply #122 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:08:39 AM »

The intellect is not a serious thing and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays that is all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #123 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:09:06 AM »

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #124 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:09:34 AM »

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

MysteRy · « **Reply #125 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:10:00 AM »

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

MysteRy · « **Reply #126 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:10:34 AM »

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

MysteRy · « **Reply #127 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:11:03 AM »

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

MysteRy · « **Reply #128 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:11:36 AM »

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

MysteRy · « **Reply #129 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:12:04 AM »

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #130 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:12:58 AM »

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #131 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:13:27 AM »

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions their lives a mimicry their passions a quotation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #132 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:14:03 AM »

America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.

MysteRy · « **Reply #133 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:15:00 AM »

Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

MysteRy · « **Reply #134 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:15:30 AM »

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

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