Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 40)

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“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.”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”

“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

“Everything is going to be fine in the end.
If it's not fine it's not the end.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”

“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”

“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”