It is what you read when you don't have... - Oscar Wilde - Quotes.Pub

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

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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the ‘L’ section, and find the word ‘life.’

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Reading Quotes

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one’s hearers.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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