Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 24)

“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

“I must say… that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

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

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”

“Any place you love is the world to you.”

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“You are what you read”