Quotes 441 till 460 of 655.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
A Woman of No Importance Act 3 -
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
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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.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946) -
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
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The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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