Biography lends to death a new terror.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Biography Quotes, Death Quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely...

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely...

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism,...

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism,...

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of...

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of...

The only real people are the people who never existed

The only real people are the people who never existed

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and...

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and...

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall...

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall...