Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Love Quotes

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

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,...

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

Authority is quite degrading

Authority is quite degrading

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,...

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them...

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is...

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is...