Nothing
succeeds
like excess.
Oscar Wilde - Poetry
Women live by their emotions and for them, they have no philosophy of
life.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have a fascination.
When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
There is only one thing worse than injustice, and that is justice
without her sword in her hand. When right is not might it is evil.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life.
Well, the secret of life is in art.
The truth isn't quite the sort of thing that one tells to a nice, sweet,
refined girl.
If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music
people don't talk.
How fond women are of doing dangerous things. It is one of the qualities
in them that I admire most. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world
as long as other people are looking on.
Englishwomen conceal their feelings till after they are married. They
show them then.
Moderation is a fatal thing.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are
perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
In art there is no such thing as a universal truth. A truth in art is
that whose contradictory is also true.
One's days are too brief to take the burden of another's sorrows on
one's shoulders. Each man lives his own life, and pays his own price for
living it. The only pity is that one has to pay so often for a single
fault. One has to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with
man Destiny never closes her accounts.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we
are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow
people.
