To lose one parent wilde
Found 456 results for to lose one parent wilde
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Oscar Wilde
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once!
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Oscar Wilde
A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde