Famous Irish People
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Irish quotes:
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
- I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- I am not young enough to know everything.
- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- Genius is born--not paid.
- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.