Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 23)

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.

It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. 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.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”

“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”