What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. Oscar Wilde forgivingdreamlove There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. Oscar Wilde ideal-husbandlovelesssides The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. Oscar Wilde kissingsickhands We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks Oscar Wilde achievegreekinspiration A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. Oscar Wilde being-truetruthbelieve I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over. Oscar Wilde zincpassionjoy Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. Oscar Wilde womensarcasticsex Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde hilariouslovefunny One should always be a little improbable. Oscar Wilde consciousnessshouldlittles Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde inspirationallifedeath A good friend will always stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde wisdombest-friendfriendship Everything in moderation, including moderation. Oscar Wilde foodinspirationalfunny I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after. Oscar Wilde procrastinatorprocrastinationtomorrow A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Oscar Wilde luxuryemotionalfeelings Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain. Oscar Wilde sadpainstars They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. Oscar Wilde lovelifesex I never change, except in my affections. Oscar Wilde affectionnever-change Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. Oscar Wilde testsnaturemen You are Beautiful when you are happy Oscar Wilde you-are-beautifulbeautifulinspirational I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde inspirationalfunnytravel
