To lose one parent wilde (8)

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

Oscar Wilde

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

Kim Wilde

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

Kim Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.

Kim Wilde

To lose one parent wilde

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.