Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 29)

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”

“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.”

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”

“One should always be a little improbable.”

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“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!”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”