Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 32)

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time”

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…”