Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having read more
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly read more
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on read more
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions read more
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
