In the words of Oscar Wilde:
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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