A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y
1.
That was one of the best Pizza’s I have ever eaten in my life. The cheese was so good it made me faint.
Elvis A. Presley
2.
a bad woman is a sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
Oscar Wilde
3.
if only one takes care of means, the end will take care of itself
Gandhi
4.
of the best rulers people only know that they exist;
the next best they love and praise;
the next they fear;
and the next they revile
Lao-Tsy
5.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6.
a bore deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
7.
a bore is a man who talks when you want him to listen.
8.
a boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for money and requests a loan
9.
a cad is a man who kisses and tells
10.
a classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read
11.
a friend to all is a friend to none
12.
a fool must now and then be right by chance
13.
a gentleman is a man who has respect for those who can be of no possible service to him
14.
a gentleman is never rude, except on purpose
15.
a good listener makes more friends than a good talker
16.
a good scare is worth more than good advice
17.
a good woman is known by what she does, a good man by what he doesn’t do
18.
a great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child
19.
a great poet is the most unpoetical of creatures
Oscar Wilde
20.
a great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning
21.
a highbrow is a kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso
22.
a highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence
23.
a lie has no legs
24.
a man is as old as he feels and a woman as old as she looks
25.
a man is like a phonograph with half a dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor
26.
a man who is going to commit an inhuman act excuses himself by saying 'I’m only human after all’
27.
a man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool
28.
a man who won’t lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings
29.
a modest girl never pursues a man; nor does a mouse-trap pursue a mouse
30.
a new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic
31.
a perfect guest makes his host feel at home
32.
a person may cause evil not only by his action but also by his inaction
33.
a pessimist is a fellow who lives with an optimist
34.
a pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it
35.
a poet can survive anything but a misprint
Oscar Wilde
36.
a poet that fails in writing becomes a bitter critic
37.
a politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies
38.
a psychologist is a man who watches everybody else when a beautiful girl enters the room
39.
a reasonable number of fleas is good for a dog: keeps him from brooding over being a dog
40.
a rich man can’t imagine poverty
41.
a room without books is a body without soul
42.
a scholar who cherishes a love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar
43.
a selfish man is indifferent to people he can’t use for his purpose
44.
a sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations
45.
a successful man is one who earns more than his wife can possibly spend
46.
a teacher who is impatient for his pupils is only human
47.
accidents are accidents only to ignorance
48.
acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to
49.
adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience
50.
advertising makes you think you have longed all your life for something you never even heard of before
51.
all political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies
52.
almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it
53.
almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it
54.
always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior
55.
an alarm clock: a device for waking a childless household
56.
an honest minister asks what recommends a man, a corrupt one, who
57.
an ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband
58.
an ordinary man would rather read the life of the cruellest pirate that ever lived than that of the wisest philosopher
59.
any sort of peace with our fellow-citizens seems to me preferable to civil war
60.
anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success
61.
apology is politeness too late
62.
as long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Oscar Wilde
63.
at sixty man learns how to value home
64.
beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry
65.
birth is the cause of death
66.
blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact
67.
caress your sentence tenderly, it will end by smiling to you
68.
character is what you are in the dark
69.
children are so expensive that only the poor can afford them
70.
choose your wife rather by your ear than by your eye
71.
commit a sin twice and it will not seem to you a crime
72.
conscience: another man within me who is angry with me
73.
conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about
74.
corruption of the best becomes the worst
75.
creativity is the art of taking a fresh look at old knowledge
76.
curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last
77.
curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect
78.
cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
79.
daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward: they may be beaten but they start a winning game
80.
defend me from my friends: my enemies never call when I have work to do
81.
diamond cuts diamond
82.
dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true
83.
discussion: a method of confirming others in their errors
84.
do all the work you can: that is the whole philosophy of a good life
85.
do you love life? Then don’t waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of
86.
don’t pass a temptation lightly by: it may never come again
87.
don’t put all your eggs into one basket
88.
don’t talk of things after they are done
89.
duty is what we expect from others
90.
early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
91.
eat with the rich, but go to play with the poor, who are capable of joy
92.
education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding
93.
egotist: a man who tells you those things about himself which you intended to tell him about yourself
94.
empty barrels make the most sound
95.
etiquette requires us to admire the human race
95.
every complaints of his memory and no one complaints of his judgment
96.
every hero becomes a bore at last
97.
every man has a perfect right to his opinion, provided it agrees with ours
98.
everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions
Oscar Wilde
99.
everybody knows that it is much harder to turn word into deed than deed into word
100.
everybody knows that man has a lot of faults just as woman has, but it takes the opposite sex to bring them to light
101.
everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he doesn’t show to anybody
102.
everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else
103.
everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
104.
everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly, everything that can be said, can be said clearly
105.
evil is good perverted
106.
examinations are formidable even for the best prepared, for the greatest fool can ask more than the wisest man can answer
107.
experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald
108.
experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him
109.
experience is the name everybody gives to his mistakes
110.
experience is the name everybody gives to his mistakes
111.
fashion is something that goes out of fashion as soon as most people have it
112.
few can do us good, almost any can do us harm
113.
few men get what they desire and few deserve what they get
114.
few people are famous for what they have not done
115.
flattery is like Cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
116.
flowers are as common in the country as people are in London
Oscar Wild
117.
friendship is like money: easier made than kept
118.
generosity is the essence of friendship
Oscar Wilde
119.
genius is the will to turn on your thoughts instead of the radio
120.
genius: the faculty of perceiving in an unusual way
121.
give me a bed and a book, and I am happy
122.
God sells knowledge for labour and risk
123.
good manners are the technic of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
124.
half a truth is often a great lie
125.
happiness is the by-product of an effort to make someone else happy
126.
he that is pleased with solitude must be either a wild beast or a god
127.
he who does not need to lie is proud of not being a lier
128.
he who falls in love with himself has no rivals
129.
he who falls in love with himself has no rivals
130.
he who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear
131.
he who is loved by men is loved by God
132.
he who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave
133.
he will always be a slave who does not know how to live on a little
134.
history is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another
135.
home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in
136.
honesty is a fine jewel but much out of fashion
137.
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
138.
how glorious it is, and also how painful, to be an exception
139.
how many people have a good ear for literature and sing out of tune
140.
hunger for truth is often stronger than the desire for peace and security
141.
I can always be nice to people I don’t care for
142.
I can live for two months on a good compliment
143.
I can resist everything except temptation
144.
I care for a philosopher only to the extent that he is able to be an example
145.
I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it
146.
I distrust people who are very sure of everything they say
147.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget
148.
I don’t like principles, I prefer prejudices
Oscar Wilde
149.
I like looking at geniuses, and listening to beautiful people
Oscar Wilde
150.
I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours
151.
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses
152.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after
Oscar Wilde
153.
I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability
Oscar Wilde
154.
if a man is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him
Oscar Wilde
155.
if a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself needs it
156.
if at first you don’t succeed you are running about average
157.
if only one takes care of means, the end will take care of itself
Gandhi
158.
if we can’t as we would, we must do as we can
159.
if we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship
160.
if you don’t aim at anything you achieve nothing
161.
if you have many friends you probably have little time
162.
if you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things
162.
if you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad
163.
if you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad
164.
if your enemy wrongs you, buy each of his children a drum
165.
in a multitude of words there will certainly be an error
166.
in eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty
167.
in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes
168.
in Rome do as Romans do
169.
in their first passion women are in love with their lover; in the rest, with love
170.
in this age when it is said of a man 'he knows to live’ it may be implied he is not very honest
171.
industry is the root of all ugliness
Oscar Wilde
172.
instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better
173.
intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
174.
it is a dirty bird which fouls its own nest
175.
it is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver
176.
it is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering
177.
it is a wise talker who knows when he has nothing to say
178.
it is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious
Oscar Wilde
179.
it is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain
180.
it is always nice to be expected and not to arrive
Oscar Wilde
181.
it is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same
182.
it is batter to have a permanent income than to be fascinating
Oscar Wilde
183.
it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
184.
it is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves
185.
it is easier to get money than to keep it
186.
it is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
187.
it is easy to bear the misfortunes of others
188.
it is easy to stand a pain but difficult to stand an itch
189.
it is many a slip between the cup and the lip
190.
it is never too late to mend
191.
it is no use saying 'We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary
192.
it is not enough to do good; one must do it in the right way
193.
it is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
194.
it is often said that force is no argument. That, however, entirely depends on what one wants do prove
195.
it is one of functions of literature to turn truisms into truths
196.
it is only in literature that coincidences seem unnatural
197.
it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself
Oscar Wilde
198.
it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
199.
it is the first step that is troublesome
200.
it often takes a speaker twice as long to tell what he thinks as to tell what he knows
201.
it requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious
202.
it takes two to make a quarrel
203.
it’s a great man who can laugh at his misfortunes
204.
it’s a long way to Tipperary
205.
it’s sweet to be remembered, but it’s often cheaper to be forgotten
206.
journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read
Oscar Wilde
207.
just as we suffer from excess in all things so we suffer from excess in literature
208.
keep smiling
209.
killing time is not so much murder as suicide
210.
lack of imagination is the basis of action
Oscar Wilde
211.
language is the parent, and not the child, of thought
Oscar Wilde
212.
last but not least
213.
learning has gained most from those books from which the printers have lost
214.
learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse
215.
life is a hospital, in which every patient wants to change his bed
216.
life is a matter about which we are lost if we reason too little or too much
217.
life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think
218.
life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
219.
like most people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners
Oscar Wilde
220.
listening patiently to people’s confessions and complaints you win their friendship
221.
little minds are interested in extraordinary things; great minds are interested in the commonplace
222.
little minds are wounded by the smallest thing
223.
love is the only way out of solitude
224.
love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence
225.
make hay while the sun shines
226.
man can believe the impossible but can never believe the improbable
227.
man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on
228.
man is often more irritated by the trifles than by the serious matters
229.
man is the only animal who blushes, or needs to
230.
many a truth can be best expressed in jest
231.
many laws but little justice
232.
many things are not believed because their current explanation is not believed
233.
many wise words are spoken in jest; but they don’t begin to compare with the number of foolish words spoken in earnest
234.
marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two
235.
marriage: a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter
236.
marriage is like a cafeteria: you take what looks good to you, and pay for it later
237.
mediocre people have an answer to everything and are astonished at nothing
238.
men can live without air for a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for two months, and without a new thought, for years and years
239.
men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction
240.
men tire themselves in pursuit of rest
241.
men who are ready to do everything for the sake of peace, seldom find peace
242.
men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact
243.
millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
244.
modern age: when girls wear less in the street than their grandmothers did in bed
245.
money will buy a pretty good dog but it won’t buy the wag of his tail
246.
monotony is a law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises
247.
most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes, clever people can do it in five
248.
my duty is a thing I never do, on principle
Oscar Wilde
249.
my house is my castle
250.
never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
251.
new brooms sweep clear
252.
no man has become wicked all at once
253.
no man with four aces asks for a new deal
254.
no member of a crew is praised for the individuality of his rowing
255.
no needle is sharp at both ends
256.
no one can be original by trying
257.
nobody has ever been able to tell the difference between a fool and a hero until afterwards
258.
nobody has ever tried to change gold into lead
259.
nothing is ever all wrong. Even a clock that stops is right twice a day
260.
nothing is impossible in Russia but reform
Oscar Wilde
261.
nothing is wonderful when you get used to it
262.
nothing marks the increasing wealth of our times and the growth of the public mind toward refinement more than the demand for books
263.
nothing refines but the intellect
Oscar Wilde
264.
nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs
Oscar Wilde
265.
nowadays whatever is not worth saying is sung
266.
of the best rulers people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise; the next they fear; and the next they revileoften it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much
267.
one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life
Oscar Wilde
268.
only the shallow know themselves
Oscar Wilde
269.
only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change
270.
only a small man boasts of his achievements and only an ignorant boasts of his knowledge
271.
patience is the best remedy for every trouble
272.
peace comes not from the absence of conflict but from the ability to cope with it
273.
peace of mind begins just where ambition ends
274.
people are also judged by the company they keep away from
275.
people are happy or unhappy, not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect
276.
people who are not aware of the danger can’t be said to be brave
277.
people are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others
278.
people ask you for advice byt they only want praise
279.
perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to
280.
perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away
281.
perfection is made of trifles, and perfection is not a trifle
282.
pessimism with regard to the present often comes from ignorance of the errors nad miseries of the past
283.
philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbours
Oscar Wilde
284.
power of speech is given to all, wisdom of mind to few
285.
power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely
286.
questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are
Oscar Wilde
287.
right or wrong, my country
288.
scandal: something that has to be very bad to be very good
289.
scepticism is the beginning of Faith
Oscar Wilde
290.
science is organized knowledge
291.
selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live
292.
self-respect is at basis of good manners
293.
she laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth
294.
smokers and non-smokers cannot be equally free in the same carriage
295.
solitude affects some people like wine; they must not take too much of it, for it flies to the head
296.
solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do
297.
some people always look for a job and always avoid work
298.
some people have nothing else but experience
299.
some people think that whatever is done solemnly must make sense
300.
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Hamlet
301.
sometimes tolerance is another name for indifference
302.
steel is produced from iron and poetry from suffering
303.
success depends on knowing how long it will take to succeed
304.
suffering is an essential ingredient of life, the genuine yeast which cannot be replaced by any ersatz
305.
taking advantage of any situation that is what some people call intelligence
306.
talk to a man about himself and he will listen to you for hours
307.
the acquiring of culture is the developing of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty
308.
the ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction
Oscar Wilde
309.
the belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are capable of every wickedness
310.
the best men seek for truth all their lives long
311.
the best men seek for truth all their lives longthe best that one can say of most modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality
Oscar Wilde
312.
the character is a long standing habit
313.
the Creeds are believed not because they are rational, but because they are repeated
Oscar Wilde
314.
the discontented are the driving force of progress
315.
the discovery of America was the death of art
Oscar Wilde
316.
the early bird catches the worm
317.
the first half our life is usually ruined by our parents, and the second by our children
318.
the foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man wonders at the usual
319.
the future influences the present just as much as the past
320.
the great superiority of France over England is that in France every bourgeois wants to be an artist, whereas in England every artist wants to be a bourgeois
321.
the greater the power, the more dangerous its abuse
322.
the greatest event in the history of the universe was the evolution of gas into genius
323.
the greatest fault is to be conscious of none
324.
the greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all the others are
325.
the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so
326.
the less broth, the more spoons
327.
the majority of husbands remind me of an orang-utan trying to play the violin
328.
the more desperate the love the more funny it seems to others
329.
the more help man gets in his garden, the less it belongs to him
330.
the most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth
331.
the nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh
332.
the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing
333.
the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self- denial
Oscar Wilde
334.
the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
335.
the rest is silence
Hamlet
336.
the right man in the right place
337.
the terrible thing about the search for truth is that you find it
338.
the test of good manners is being able to put up with bad ones
339.
the true snob is a man who is afraid to admit that he is bored when he is bored
340.
the usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good
341.
the way to be a bore is for an author to say everything
342.
the wealthiest are by no means the happiest
343.
the world is a stage, but the play is badly cast
Oscar Wilde
344.
the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic
Oscar Wilde
345.
the youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years
Oscar Wilde
346.
there are only three ways by which an individual can get rich: by work, by gift, or by theft
347.
there are only two sure means of forgetfulness known to man: work and drink, and, of the two, work is the more economical
348.
there are so many things one can do without
349.
there have been as many martyrs for bad causes as for good ones
350.
there is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
351.
there is no place like home
352.
there is no sin except stupidity
Oscar Wilde
353.
there is no smoke without fire
354.
there is nothing more horrible than imagination without taste
355.
there is nothing so unlucky as depending on luck
356.
there is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation
357.
there is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool
358.
they quarrel about trifles because they hate each other
359.
those who are at war with others are not at peace with themself
360.
though all society is founded on intolerance all improvement is founded on tolerance
361.
thought depends on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers
362.
time is money
363.
time is waste of money
Oscar Wilde
364.
to admire is the only way of imitating without losing originality
365.
to be happy add to your possessions but subtract from your desires
366.
to be happy at home is the most important condition of a good life
367.
to be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up
Oscar Wilde
368.
to be on the spot when the opportunity for greatness occurs is the essential thing
369.
to be or not to be, that is the question
Hamlet
370.
to die for one’s theological beliefs is the worst use a man can make of his life
Oscar Wilde
371.
to fall in love with a woman is to fall in love with life and with oneself
372.
to laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools
373.
to like what you have is to have what you like
374.
to profit from good advice demands more wisdom than to give it
375.
to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting
Oscar Wilde
376.
to regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development
Oscar Wilde
377.
to say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself
378.
to turn events into ideas is the function of literature
379.
to win back my youth there is nothing I wouldn’t do except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of community
380.
truth crushed to earth will rise again
381.
truth is always paradoxical
382.
visits always give pleasure: if not the coming, then the going
383.
water taken in moderation can’t hurt anybody
384.
we all find time to do what we really want to do
385.
we are always bored by those whom we bore
386.
we are by nature already condemned to die which sentence no man can pardon
387.
we are interested in others when they are interested in us
388.
we are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong
389.
we are tired by the work we do not do, not by what we do
390.
we hardly find any person of good sense save those who agree with us
391.
we learn from experience that men never learn from experience
392.
we live in the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid
Oscar Wilde
393.
we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy
394.
we must not look for a calm life in the age of jets
395.
we often read with as much talent as we write
396.
we profit little from books we don’t enjoy
397.
what a dustbin is the memory of a man who never forgets
398.
what a man thinks of himself, influences his fate
399.
what begins in happiness is doomed to end in misery
400.
what holy cities are to nomadic tribes: a symbol of race and a bond of union, great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind
401.
what is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women
402.
what is love? The need to escape from oneself
403.
what is not useful to any is harmful to all
404.
what is written without effort is usually read without pleasure
405.
when a man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet
Oscar Wilde
406.
when a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent
407.
when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him
Oscar Wilde
408.
when a man is tired of London he is tired of life
409.
when one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, and one ends by deceiving others
410.
when people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong
411.
when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers
Oscar Wilde
411.
when the public describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true
Oscar Wilde
412.
when you walk or ride a bike you see the country at your own speed
413.
where it is duty to worship the sun, it is a crime to examine the laws of heat
414.
where there is a will there is a way
415.
while an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best
416.
who is loved by everybody has much trouble
417.
wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means
418.
wishful thinking
419.
with freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
Oscar Wilde
420.
women are the most reliable as they have no memory for the important
Oscar Wilde
421.
women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us even our superior intellects
422.
worry is like sand in an oyster: a little produces a pearl, too much kills the animal
423.
yawn is at least an honest opinion
424.
you are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute
425.
you can always kill with a knife, but you can’t always break a man’s will with it
426.
you can never plan the future by the past
427.
you can tell a man by his work
428.
you can’t be independent of all people
429.
you can’t see much in a little town but what you hear makes up for it
430.
you can’t tell an honest man from a rogue, at least not at the first sight
431.
you may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a 'realist’, he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing
432.
you must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible
Oscar Wilde
433.
you shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends
434.
youth is the one thing worth having
Oscar Wilde
435.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal