Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. ”
“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”
“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”
“I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists”
“He had that rarest of all things, common sense.”
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