Oscar Wilde Quotes, Funny Quotes, Family Quotes

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Family Quotes

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , May Quotes , Lost Quotes

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lying Quotes , College Quotes

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Determination Quotes , Ambition Quotes

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Genius Quotes

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , True Life Quotes , Forgiving Quotes

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Music Quotes , Lying Quotes

The supreme vice is shallowness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Vices Quotes , Supreme Quotes

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Book Quotes

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Age Quotes , Seriousness Quotes

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Platonic Love Quotes , Before I Met You Quotes

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Marriage Quotes

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes