Oscar Wilde Quotes, Cat Quotes, Ivory Quotes

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Cat Quotes , Ivory Quotes

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Memories Quotes , Should Have Quotes

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Work Quotes , Men Quotes

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Play Quotes , Fans Quotes

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , Errors Quotes

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Simple Quotes , Curiosity Quotes

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes , Zinc Quotes

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Travel Quotes , Cities Quotes

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Art Quotes

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Love Quotes , Funny Quotes

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Real Quotes

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Threshold Quotes

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Class Quotes

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Education Quotes , Learning Quotes

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes , People Quotes

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sports Quotes , Special Quotes

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Running Quotes , Hair Quotes

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Funny Quotes

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hero Quotes , Class Quotes