I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Tag: Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.