Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Oscar Wilde

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Oscar Wilde

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Kami Garcia

Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

Kanye West

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

June Carter Cash

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

Julie Walters

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

Maria Shriver

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Paul Theroux

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Krugman

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.