Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Faithfulness Quotes, Love Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Only the shallow know themselves.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

The only real people are the people who never existed

The only real people are the people who never existed

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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...

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm....

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm....

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of...

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists...

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists...

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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 a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love,...

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love,...

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never...

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never...

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's...

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's...