Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Leisure Quotes

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Leisure Quotes

Nature is always behind the age

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Age Quotes

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Arguing Quotes

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Positive Quotes , Gratitude Quotes

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Education Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Mediocrity Quotes

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Children Quotes , Mean Quotes

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mother Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Love Quotes , Husband Quotes

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Psychology Quotes

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Saws Quotes

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Self Quotes

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , World Quotes

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Curves Quotes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dark Quotes , Secret Quotes

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Soul Quotes , Doe Quotes

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes