How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Religion Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive...

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive...

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It takes a long time to grow young.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Things are beautiful if you love them.