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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Aunt Quotes , Two Quotes
  • The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Country Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Two Quotes