Oscar Wilde

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I read more

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, read more

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he read more

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates read more

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life