Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Beauty Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

All art is quite useless.

All art is quite useless.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method...

They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than...

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than...

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

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

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead...

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead...

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan...

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

It is easier to be human than to be a human being.

It is easier to be human than to be a human being.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature...

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.