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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 481-502
481 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
482 Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
483 Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
484 How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
485 I forgot what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
486 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
487 The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
488 Youth is the only think worth having.
489 I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
490 Truth is independent of facts always.
491 A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
492 To disagree with three-fourth of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
493 Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
494 Where there is no love there is no understanding.
495 Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
496 The secret of life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
497 In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
498 It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place.
499 There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
500 Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
501 Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
502 Youth is wasted on the young.
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