The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Humanity Quotes, Life Quotes

Hearts live by being wounded.

Hearts live by being wounded.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

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 -...

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

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...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

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...

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

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

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

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...

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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...

In every problem there is a hidden treasure inside. It's your job to find it.

In every problem there is a hidden treasure inside. It's your job to find it.

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make...

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make...