I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Hear no evil, speak no evil – and you’ll never be invited to a party.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
A remarkable characteristic of the Americans is the manner in which they have applied science to modern life – In England an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America an inventor is honored, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, […]
He (George Bernard Shaw) hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, all the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a great deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world […]
