When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Liberty Quotes, Revolution Quotes, Violence Quotes

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.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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

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

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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

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

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

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;...

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in...

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in...

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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...

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.