Quel est l'homme qui ne serait pas flatté de la passion qu'il inspire à une jeune femme, belle et riche, qui oublie les serments faits à l'époux pour jouir sur le cœur de l'amant de quelques moments d'ivresse ?
- 1893 -
Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
By Oscar Wilde
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
By Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
By Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
By Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
By Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
By Oscar Wilde
CHASUBLE: Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not?
By Oscar Wilde
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.
By Oscar Wilde
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
By Oscar Wilde
Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.
By Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
By Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
By Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
By Oscar Wilde
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
By Oscar Wilde
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde