Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie […]
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
