Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900
was an Irish writer and poet
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
