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Oscar Wilde: In going to...

Oscar Wilde: In going to...

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to...

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Oscar Wilde: Those whom the...

Oscar Wilde: Those whom the...

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Source: A Few Maxims for the Instruction of...

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Oscar Wilde: For an artist...

Oscar Wilde: For an artist...

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the...

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Oscar Wilde: Relations are simply...

Oscar Wilde: Relations are simply...

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest...

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Oscar Wilde: The great events...

Oscar Wilde: The great events...

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become...

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Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different...

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Oscar Wilde: I dislike modern...

Oscar Wilde: I dislike modern...

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have...

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Oscar Wilde: Most people are...

Oscar Wilde: Most people are...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a...

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Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: I sometimes think...

Oscar Wilde: I sometimes think...

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Alexander Pope: How here he...

Alexander Pope: How here he...

How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all o'er, like an industrious...

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Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Is not absence death to those who love?

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Alexander Pope: I find myself....

Alexander Pope: I find myself....

I find myself. . . hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but...

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Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober...

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Alexander Pope: Speed the soft...

Alexander Pope: Speed the soft...

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.


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Alexander Pope: The mob of...

Alexander Pope: The mob of...

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alexander Pope: Shakespeare . ....

Alexander Pope: Shakespeare . ....

Shakespeare . . .
For gain not glory, winged his roving flight,
And grew immortal in his own...

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Alexander Pope: While expletives their...

Alexander Pope: While expletives their...

While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull...

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Alexander Pope: Wit that can...

Alexander Pope: Wit that can...

Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Source: Epistle to Dr....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the churchmen...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the churchmen...

But the churchmen fain would kill their church,/As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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