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Oscar Wilde: I have found...

Oscar Wilde: I have found...

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...

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Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: A damsel is...

Oscar Wilde: A damsel is...

A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a...

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Thornton Wilder: I've never forgotten...

Thornton Wilder: I've never forgotten...

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the...

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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone...

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Ogden Nash: Marriage is the...

Ogden Nash: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets...

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Ogden Nash: I have a...

Ogden Nash: I have a...

I have a bone to pick with Fate
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or...

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Ogden Nash: You scour the...

Ogden Nash: You scour the...

You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
From river to river you comb...

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Ogden Nash: The turtle lives...

Ogden Nash: The turtle lives...

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In...

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Alexander Pope: And you, brave...

Alexander Pope: And you, brave...

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill!


Source: In...

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J August Strindberg: Society is a...

J August Strindberg: Society is a...

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Source:...

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Benjamin Franklin: Genius is nothing...

Benjamin Franklin: Genius is nothing...

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Source: In Webster's...

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Benjamin Franklin: In this world...

Benjamin Franklin: In this world...

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Source:...

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Bernard Baruch: The art of...

Bernard Baruch: The art of...

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Source: In ...

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William Shakespeare: When to the...

William Shakespeare: When to the...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a...

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George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all...

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