To lose one parent wilde (6)

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Oscar Wilde

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation...

Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde

Between men and woman there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Oscar Wilde

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

Oscar Wilde

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent wilde

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Between men and woman there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.