While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Charity Quotes, Freedom Quotes

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

You are beautiful when you are happy.

You are beautiful when you are happy.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a...

Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts...

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts...

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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...

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great...

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great...

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

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

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

The difference in the stature, vitality, voice, development, muscular quality and physical strength of men...

The difference in the stature, vitality, voice, development, muscular quality and physical strength of men...

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in...

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in...