Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Excess Quotes, Funny Quotes, Moderation Quotes, Success Quotes

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.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs...

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs...

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

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

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

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

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...

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...