Oscar Wilde Quotes, Photography Quotes, Wine Quotes

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Photography Quotes , Wine Quotes

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Moderation Quotes , All Things Quotes

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Men Quotes

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Giving Quotes , Facts Quotes

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Positive Quotes , Gratitude Quotes

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , World Quotes

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Finishing Quotes , Royal Quotes

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Dust Quotes

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Men And Women Quotes

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Depressing Quotes , Real Quotes

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Witty Quotes

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Art Quotes

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Love Quotes , Dream Quotes

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Truth Quotes

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Drunk Quotes , Poetry Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lessons Quotes

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Selfish Quotes , People Quotes

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Want Quotes

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mother Daughter Quotes , Mother And Daughter Quotes

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Family Quotes , Wall Quotes