The Only Thing To Do With Good Advice Is Pass It On. It Is Never Any Use To Oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality, Like Art, Means Drawing A Line Someplace.
The Public Is Wonderfully Tolerant. It Forgives Everything Except Genius.
I Can Believe Anything, Provided That It Is Quite Incredible.
But What Is The Difference Between Literature And Journalism? …Journalism Is Unreadable And Literature Is Not Read. That Is All.
I Adore Simple Pleasures. They Are The Last Refuge Of The Complex.
America Is The Only Country That Went From Barbarism To Decadence Without Civilization In Between.
I Am Not Young Enough To Know Everything.
Selfishness Is Not Living As One Wishes To Live, It Is Asking Others To Live As One Wishes To Live.
I Always Like To Know Everything About My New Friends, And Nothing About My Old Ones.
When The Gods Wish To Punish Us, They Answer Our Prayers.
Fashion Is A Form Of Ugliness So Intolerable That We Have To Alter It Every Six Months.
To Love Oneself Is The Beginning Of A Lifelong Romance
Music Makes One Feel So Romantic – At Least It Always Gets On One’s Nerves – Which Is The Same Thing Nowadays.
Experience Is The Name Everyone Gives To Their Mistakes.
My Own Business Always Bores Me To Death; I Prefer Other People’s.
The Old Believe Everything, The Middle-Aged Suspect Everything, And The Young Know Everything.
Work Is The Curse Of The Drinking Classes.
Most People Are Other People. Their Thoughts Are Someone Else’s Opinions, Their Lives A Mimicry, Their Passions A Quotation.
Do Not Speak Ill Of Society, Algie. Only People Who Can’t Get In Do That.
To Disagree With Three-Fourths Of The British Public Is One Of The First Requisites Of Sanity.
The Aim Of Life Is Self-Development. To Realize One’s Nature Perfectly – That Is What Each Of Us Is Here For.
It Is Absurd To Divide People Into Good And Bad. People Are Either Charming Or Tedious.
One Can Survive Everything, Nowadays, Except Death, And Live Down Everything Except A Good Reputation.
Crying Is The Refuge Of Plain Women, But The Ruin Of Pretty Ones.
I Suppose That I Shall Have To Die Beyond My Means.
Arguments Are To Be Avoided; They Are Always Vulgar And Often Convincing.
We Have Really Everything In Common With America Nowadays Except, Of Course, Language.
To Get Back My Youth I Would Do Anything In The World, Except Take Exercise, Get Up Early, Or Be Respectable.
What Is A Cynic? A Man Who Knows The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing.
I Can Resist Anything But Temptation.
Nowadays Most People Die Of A Sort Of Creeping Common Sense, And Discover When It Is Too Late That The Only Things One Never Regrets Are One’s Mistakes.
I Was Working On The Proof Of One Of My Poems All The Morning, And Took Out A Comma. In The Afternoon I Put It Back Again.
Whenever People Agree With Me I Always Feel I Must Be Wrong.
The Truth Is Rarely Pure And Never Simple.
In America The President Reigns For Four Years, And Journalism Governs For Ever And Ever.
A Man Cannot Be Too Careful In The Choice Of His Enemies.
It Is Better To Have A Permanent Income Than To Be Fascinating.
There Is No Such Thing As A Moral Or An Immoral Book. Books Are Well Written Or Badly Written.
Children Begin By Loving Their Parents; As They Grow Older They Judge Them; Sometimes They Forgive Them.
The Only Way To Get Rid Of A Temptation Is To Yield To It. Resist It, And Your Soul Grows Sick With Longing For The Things It Has Forbidden To Itself.
The Reason We All Like To Think So Well Of Others Is That We Are All Afraid For Ourselves. The Basis Of Optimism Is Sheer Terror.
The True Mystery Of The World Is The Visible, Not The Invisible.
Perhaps, After All, America Never Has Been Discovered. I Myself Would Say That It Had Merely Been Detected.
Whenever A Man Does A Thoroughly Stupid Thing, It Is Always From The Noblest Motives.
I Think That God In Creating Man Somewhat Overestimated His Ability.
I Love Acting. It Is So Much More Real Than Life.
The Advantage Of The Emotions Is That They Lead Us Astray, And The Advantage Of Science Is That It Is Not Emotional.
America Had Often Been Discovered Before Columbus, But It Had Always Been Hushed Up.
Always Forgive Your Enemies; Nothing Annoys Them So Much.
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