Adway Lele's favorite quotes

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
— Oscar Wilde

"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: sinister

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

tags: life

93 people liked it

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
— Oscar Wilde

69 people liked it

"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: friend, judge

69 people liked it

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
— Oscar Wilde

70 people liked it

"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."
— Oscar Wilde

41 people liked it

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult

62 people liked it

"...cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
— Oscar Wilde

11 people liked it

"America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america, oscar, wilde

37 people liked it

"She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: insults, oscar, wilde

53 people liked it

"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, work

228 people liked it

"Credit is a young man's capital."
— Oscar Wilde

3 people liked it

"The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
— Oscar Wilde

6 people liked it

"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: holy, sorrow

63 people liked it

"Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!"
— Oscar Wilde

7 people liked it

"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

74 people liked it

"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: culture, historians, literature

6 people liked it

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: angst, brothers, death, friendship

32 people liked it

"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

14 people liked it

"I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

31 people liked it

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america

277 people liked it

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

264 people liked it

"The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: advice, humor

122 people liked it

"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

47 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love

545 people liked it

"The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: chapter, vii

8 people liked it

"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is."
— Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost)

tags: chapter, v

56 people liked it

"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act-i

8 people liked it

"My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!"
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, i

14 people liked it

"Jack. I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Algernon. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, i

28 people liked it

"You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, ii

11 people liked it

"Jack. This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, ii

14 people liked it

"Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, iii

7 people liked it

"I never change, except in my affections."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: act, iii

19 people liked it

"The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
— Oscar Wilde

16 people liked it

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor."
— Oscar Wilde

23 people liked it

"And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die."
— Oscar Wilde

14 people liked it

"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: poetry, wit

33 people liked it

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"
— Oscar Wilde

24 people liked it

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: america, discovery

14 people liked it

"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

87 people liked it

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
— Oscar Wilde

35 people liked it

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction

110 people liked it

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: beer

83 people liked it

"Some things are too important to be taken seriously."
— Oscar Wilde

29 people liked it

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

72 people liked it

"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

14 people liked it

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

14 people liked it

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
— Oscar Wilde

57 people liked it

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