Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Sorrow 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

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Procrastination Quotes , Tomorrow Quotes

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Crowns Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , War Quotes , Long Quotes

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Women Quotes , Heart Quotes

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Regret Quotes

Duty is what one expects from others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Ethics Quotes

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Mistake Quotes

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Artist Quotes

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Doe Quotes

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Perseverance Quotes , Tired Quotes

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , House Quotes , Body Quotes

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes , Simple Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Exercise Quotes

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vices Quotes

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Horse Quotes , Sex Quotes

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Trust Quotes , Betrayal 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