WILDE

Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everything is dangerous. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talking. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don’t understand what I said.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, for all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

In this world there are only two tragedies one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.

Love is not blind, it is far-sighted: the proof lies in the fact that it begins to see defects as they gradually slip away.

There are two tragedies in life, one is not getting what you want and the other is getting what you want.

Love is not blind, it is far-sighted (fig. foresighted, that foresee): the proof lies in the fact that it begins to see defects as they gradually slip away.

One should be always in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

The secret of happiness is to yield to temptations.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Young people nowdays assume that money is everything, and when the get older they know it.