If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
In the square below,’ said the Happy Prince, ‘there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she does not bring hom...
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack...
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on...
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their...
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
Jack: Gwendolen, wait here for me.Gwendolen: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exc...
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things r...
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe, an...
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
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