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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés epigram

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Oscar Wilde

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés humor fashion

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés humor

Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés marriage bad-habits

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés art

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

Mots clés writing aliteracy bad-reviews self-publishing

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

Oscar Wilde

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Oscar Wilde