Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
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.
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when read more
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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.
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.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic read more
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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.
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.
