Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
I can resist everything except temptation.
True friends stab you in the front.
