Tag: Oscar Wilde
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I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde