Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Love Quotes

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

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...

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak...

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

Nature is always behind the age

Nature is always behind the age

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God's forgiveness.

Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God's forgiveness.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle....

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle....