Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900
was an Irish writer and poet
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
History is merely gossip
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
