Quotes 381 till 400 of 548.
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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 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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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
The Critic as Artist (1891) -
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime -
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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