Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sending out some sweet Oscar Wilde quotes

since @charsetter doesn't like me re-tweeting a bunch of things i'm gonna put it in one big blog.. Part I

-I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

-Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

-Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

-He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

-It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

-Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

-No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

-Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

-There is no sin except stupidity.

-To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

-I can resist everything except temptation.

-Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

-My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

-Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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