Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows read more
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely read more
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
