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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Death Quotes, Reputation Quotes

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

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

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...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called...

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called...

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul...

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul...

Saying to your friend, 'There's your best friend.' when you see someone that they hate.

Saying to your friend, 'There's your best friend.' when you see someone that they hate.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.