The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas. Oscar Wilde public-opinion opinion ideas Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. Oscar Wilde greek essence dresses The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. Oscar Wilde policemen criminals class I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram. Oscar Wilde epigrams existence phrases I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead. Oscar Wilde dry sick dying After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations. Oscar Wilde dinner forgiving quality Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do. Oscar Wilde refuge hard hard-work Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life. Oscar Wilde taken disappointment fall 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 funny-relationship character men I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde witty inspirational funny 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 political war long Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. Oscar Wilde forgiving enough love Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Oscar Wilde vulgarity-is two facts In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. Oscar Wilde modern life world Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Oscar Wilde political sarcastic house In married life three is company and two none. Oscar Wilde importance-of-being-earnest three two It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. Oscar Wilde money sarcastic funny you will always love, and you will always be loved Oscar Wilde You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas Oscar Wilde night ideas thinking Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. Oscar Wilde clothes house men
