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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Ideas Quotes, Individuality Quotes, Passion 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...

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

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

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

The heart was made to be broken.

The heart was made to be broken.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of...

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.