While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the...

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the...

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...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,...

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 the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

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

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

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing...

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.