Quote #106
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- I can resist everything . . . except child pornography. Sweet, sweet child pornography.
- The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
- A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.