Courage has gone out of our race. — there is the sting of life.”, “Life is not complex. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.

Yes: I am a dreamer. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. It is one of its chiefest charms.”, “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”, “I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”, “It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”, “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”, “Most people live for love and admiration. ", "To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. During a conversation with Lord Henry, Dorian tells him that he has fallen in love with an actress named Sibyl Vane.

Pretty women go shopping. But to suffer for one’s own faults–ah!–there is the sting of life. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. ", "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”, “She lives the poetry she cannot write.”, “Any place you love is the world to you.”, “Everything is going to be fine in the end. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

That is what the world calls a romance. Kevin, the "Message Guy" who writes the birthday wishes, quotes, poems, toasts and speeches on BirthdayMessages.net, has been a content writer since 1993. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Most people exist, that is all. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”, “Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”, “The aim of life is self-development. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”, “A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”, “It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.