Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 34)

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”