Daily quote |
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. When good Americans die they go to Paris. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Why was I born with such contemporaries? While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Who, being loved, is poor? |