Quote #109

Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
  2. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
  3. I can resist everything . . . except child pornography. Sweet, sweet child pornography.
  4. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
  5. 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.
  6. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
  7. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
  8. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

All Oscar Wilde quotes