Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. Oscar Wilde visiondifferentlooks If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation. Oscar Wilde doorsfriendshipmoving An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Oscar Wilde optimismglassesneeds Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. Oscar Wilde makeupfashionbeauty The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. Oscar Wilde temptation The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde positiveinspirationallove In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. Oscar Wilde disappointed-loveexpress-yourselfwonder To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist. Oscar Wilde this-worldpeopleworld We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde positiveinspirationalfunny Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do. Oscar Wilde sooner-or-laterpay Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! Oscar Wilde attitudepositivefunny Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. Oscar Wilde talentgenius The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde angerreadinginspirational If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. Oscar Wilde writinginspirationalthinking One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde detailsrememberpast 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 mapsdoeworld You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid Oscar Wilde stupiddreamart Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. Oscar Wilde wonderfullostlife There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde stupidsillyinspirational Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde horseentrepreneurlife
