Author Topic: ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes ~ (Read 7082 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #135 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:16:04 AM »

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

MysteRy · « **Reply #136 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:16:43 AM »

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

MysteRy · « **Reply #137 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:17:11 AM »

When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.

MysteRy · « **Reply #138 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:17:41 AM »

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.

MysteRy · « **Reply #139 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:18:16 AM »

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #140 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:18:58 AM »

The typewriting machine when played with expression is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #141 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:19:32 AM »

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #142 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:20:02 AM »

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

MysteRy · « **Reply #143 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:20:38 AM »

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #144 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:21:14 AM »

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

MysteRy · « **Reply #145 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:21:42 AM »

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

MysteRy · « **Reply #146 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:22:13 AM »

A man's very highest moment is I have no doubt at all when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life.

MysteRy · « **Reply #147 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:22:48 AM »

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

MysteRy · « **Reply #148 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:23:15 AM »

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

MysteRy · « **Reply #149 on:** July 15, 2015, 10:23:45 AM »

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

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