Oscar Wilde - Quotes 601-609
What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
Oscar Wilde
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Oscar Wilde
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar Wilde
I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde
But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Oscar Wilde
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Oscar Wilde
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
Oscar Wilde
