(239 quotes found)
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
“Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact”
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them”
