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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Clever Quotes , Sick Quotes
  • With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Strong Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Faith Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Regret Quotes , Ignorance Quotes