You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Humilit Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Wishes Quotes

The heart was made to be broken.

The heart was made to be broken.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

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...

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

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...

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

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

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are...

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are...

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of...

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of...