Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 35)

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“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!”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”