Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900
was an Irish writer and poet
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One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.
The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. \'He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks, In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from sin? How
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
