Oscar WildeIrish poet, author, playwright |
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love`s tragedies.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
London is full of fogs - and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don`t know.