Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life

Oscar Wilde

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Oscar Wilde

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Oscar Wilde

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Paul Gascoigne

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Patrick McGoohan

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

Patrick Ness

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Patrick Ness

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Patrick Ness

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Patrick Ness

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Patrick Rothfuss

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

Patrick Rothfuss

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Patricia Arquette

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.

Patch Adams

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

Paris Hilton

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Lillie Langtry

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

Lillie Langtry

I do not regret one moment of my life.

Lillian Hellman

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?