Oscar Wilde Quotes
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes.
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
He rides in the row at ten o'clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middleman. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is...Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself.á Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him.á What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune...to lose both seems like carelessness.
Money cannot bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.
Moderation is the last refuge for the unimaginative.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.