Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Famous Love Quotes, Love Quotes

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

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

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

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

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When...

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

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...

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...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he...

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he...