513 Quotes About Oscar-wilde

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination