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

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so...

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so...

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your...

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your...

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a...

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the...

Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one...

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like...

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like...

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.