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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. — Oscar Wilde

Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and
then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the
middle ... — Oscar Wilde

If you do not love me, say, nonetheless, you do, for on your tongue falsehood for very shame would turn to truth. — Oscar Wilde

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms. Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol — Mark Simpson

Irony is wasted on the stupid — Oscar Wilde

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. — Oscar Wilde

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest

Very little effort is needed to create a prosperous life. Focus on positivity, prosperity, and love. — Debasish Mridha

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead — Oscar Wilde

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde

The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments — Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

The more you focus on the positive and the beauty around you, the more positive and peaceful your life will be. — Debasish Mridha

A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal. — Debasish Mridha

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. — Oscar Wilde

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. — Oscar Wilde

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) — Oscar Wilde

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. — Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb. — Oscar Wilde

the thing whose grotesque misshapen shadow on the spotted carpet showed him that it had not stirred, but — Oscar Wilde

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten. — Oscar Wilde

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde

The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done on the sly. — Oscar Wilde

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde

as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. — Oscar Wilde

I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon, — Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us. — Oscar Wilde

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. — Oscar Wilde

When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting. — Oscar Wilde

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. — Oscar Wilde

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. — Oscar Wilde

AT NINE O'CLOCK the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray, and opened the shutters. — Oscar Wilde

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it. — Oscar Wilde

I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this. — Oscar Wilde

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. — Oscar Wilde

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves. — Oscar Wilde

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face. — Oscar Wilde

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. — Oscar Wilde

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance ... living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age. — Oscar Wilde

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde. — Barry Gifford

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. — Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. — Oscar Wilde

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face! — Oscar Wilde

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone. — Debasish Mridha

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. — Oscar Wilde

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature — Oscar Wilde

The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement. — Debasish Mridha

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. — Oscar Wilde

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable! — Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am ... Carry on. — Charles M. Schulz

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. — Oscar Wilde

They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena. — Oscar Wilde

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way. — Oscar Wilde

But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde

Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom. — Debasish Mridha

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde

You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy. — Debasish Mridha

What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea. About everything, I should fancy. You have such an absolutely trivial nature. — Oscar Wilde

Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant. — Debasish Mridha

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation. — Don Winslow

When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

It would be more impressive if it flowed the other way (Commenting on Niagara Falls) — 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

There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped
blood even on the hand that had not held the knife. — Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. — Oscar Wilde

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. — Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. — Oscar Wilde

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs. — Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde

When a baby is born here on earth, a star is born in the sky. — Debasish Mridha

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children. — Debasish Mridha

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. — Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. — Oscar Wilde

They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent. — Oscar Wilde

I rely on you to misrepresent me. — Oscar Wilde

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time. — Debasish Mridha

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike — Oscar Wilde

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. — Oscar Wilde

But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. — Oscar Wilde

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life ... — Oscar Wilde

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips — Oscar Wilde

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde

To create a positive and beautiful life, you have to focus on the positive side of life. — Debasish Mridha

Most successful people are always on vacation. — Debasish Mridha

Dreaming is good - especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don't act on them. — Debasish Mridha

I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on — Oscar Wilde