To lose one parent wilde (7)

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Oscar Wilde

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.