Wednesday, February 20, 2019

From The "Wilde" One...

Oscar Wilde
My favourite picture of Oscar Wilde -- so sexy!


Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
--Oscar Wilde

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
--Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
--Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
--Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
--Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
--Oscar Wilde

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
--Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
--Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
--Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
--Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
--Oscar Wilde

Genius is born--not paid.
--Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
--Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
--Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
--Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
--Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
--Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
--Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
--Oscar Wilde

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