| 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 |