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2906 Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless Simone de Beauvoir
2905 If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir
2904 I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for trut Simone de Beauvoir
2903 One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. Simone de Beauvoir
2902 It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw Simone de Beauvoir
2900 A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. Simone de Beauvoir
2899 One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by m Simone de Beauvoir
2898 When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that Simone de Beauvoir
2897 She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that lov Simone de Beauvoir
2896 In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be Simone de Beauvoir
2895 One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir
2894 I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able t Simone de Beauvoir
2893 Love is many things none of them logical. William Goldman
2892 True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. William Goldman
2891 Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a univer William Goldman
2890 Who says life is fair, where is that written? William Goldman
2889 Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman
2888 When I was your age, television was called books. William Goldman
2886 Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman
2885 If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you Oscar Wilde
2884 Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenn Oscar Wilde
2883 I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade shou Oscar Wilde
2882 When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. Oscar Wilde
2881 The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde
2880 Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each Oscar Wilde
2879 I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t pract Oscar Wilde
2878 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at Oscar Wilde
2877 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease t Oscar Wilde
2876 Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde
2875 I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in Oscar Wilde
2874 If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, other Oscar Wilde
2873 Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. Oscar Wilde
2872 They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because Oscar Wilde
2871 It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde
2870 Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
2869 A true friend stabs you in the front. Oscar Wilde
2868 If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. Oscar Wilde
2867 I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is l Oscar Wilde
2866 I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. Oscar Wilde
2865 I love to talk about nothing it's the only thing I know anything about. Oscar Wilde
2864 There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the r Oscar Wilde
2863 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays Oscar Wilde
2862 When good Americans die, they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde
2861 Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde Oscar Wilde
2860 I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women Oscar Wilde
2859 Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. Oscar Wilde
2858 I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. Oscar Wilde
2857 The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that h Oscar Wilde
2856 You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. Oscar Wilde
2855 People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because Oscar Wilde
2854 A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde
2853 Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde
2852 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde
2851 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadabl Oscar Wilde
2850 A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. Oscar Wilde
2849 She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. Oscar Wilde
2848 We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your e Oscar Wilde
2847 A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde
2846 It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of t Oscar Wilde
2845 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde
2844 After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, y Oscar Wilde
2843 Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. Oscar Wilde
2842 What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Oscar Wilde
2841 It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to l Oscar Wilde
2840 When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a Oscar Wilde
2839 Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, Oscar Wilde
2838 My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. Oscar Wilde
2837 One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde
2836 Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women ar Oscar Wilde
2835 As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectl Oscar Wilde
2834 They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmar Oscar Wilde
2833 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
2832 Each of us has heaven and hell in him... Oscar Wilde
2831 One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde
2830 When Oscar Wilde was asked in an interview to list his 100 favorite books he sai Oscar Wilde
2829 In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowaday Oscar Wilde
2828 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of Oscar Wilde
2827 Punctuality is the thief of time Oscar Wilde
2826 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely p Oscar Wilde
2825 Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attracti Oscar Wilde
2824 I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde
2823 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, o Oscar Wilde
2822 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, Oscar Wilde
2821 I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde
2819 I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a co Oscar Wilde
2818 Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. Oscar Wilde
2817 Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the Oscar Wilde
2816 Some things are more precious because they don't last long. Oscar Wilde
2815 Some things are too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
2814 Illusion is the first of all pleasures Oscar Wilde
2813 I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern Oscar Wilde
2812 One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Oscar Wilde
2811 Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
2810 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde
2809 Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disa Oscar Wilde
2808 I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing Oscar Wilde
2807 The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure Oscar Wilde
2806 The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your Oscar Wilde
2805 Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonne Oscar Wilde
2804 Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless — Simone de Beauvoir
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for trut — Simone de Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. — Simone de Beauvoir
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw — Simone de Beauvoir
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. — Simone de Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by m — Simone de Beauvoir
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that — Simone de Beauvoir
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that lov — Simone de Beauvoir
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be — Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able t — Simone de Beauvoir
Love is many things none of them logical. — William Goldman
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. — William Goldman
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a univer — William Goldman
Who says life is fair, where is that written? — William Goldman
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all. — William Goldman
When I was your age, television was called books. — William Goldman
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. — William Goldman
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you — Oscar Wilde
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenn — Oscar Wilde
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade shou — Oscar Wilde
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. — Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. — Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each — Oscar Wilde
I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t pract — Oscar Wilde
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at — Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease t — Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. — Oscar Wilde
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in — Oscar Wilde
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, other — Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. — Oscar Wilde
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because — Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. — Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front. — Oscar Wilde
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. — Oscar Wilde
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is l — Oscar Wilde
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. — Oscar Wilde
I love to talk about nothing it's the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the r — Oscar Wilde
'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays — Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die, they go to Paris. — Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde — Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women — Oscar Wilde
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. — Oscar Wilde
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. — Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that h — Oscar Wilde
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. — Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because — Oscar Wilde
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. — Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadabl — Oscar Wilde
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. — Oscar Wilde
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. — Oscar Wilde
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your e — Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of t — Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, y — Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. — Oscar Wilde
What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? — Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to l — Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a — Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, — Oscar Wilde
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. — Oscar Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women ar — Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectl — Oscar Wilde
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmar — Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
Each of us has heaven and hell in him... — Oscar Wilde
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. — Oscar Wilde
When Oscar Wilde was asked in an interview to list his 100 favorite books he sai — Oscar Wilde
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowaday — Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of — Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time — Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely p — Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attracti — Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. — Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, o — Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, — Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. — Oscar Wilde
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a co — Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. — Oscar Wilde
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the — Oscar Wilde
Some things are more precious because they don't last long. — Oscar Wilde
Some things are too important to be taken seriously. — Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures — Oscar Wilde
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern — Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. — Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. — Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. — Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disa — Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing — Oscar Wilde
The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure — Oscar Wilde
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your — Oscar Wilde
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonne — Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde