Quote #23

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
  2. People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to coun…
  3. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
  4. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
  5. le mystere de l'amour est plus grand que le mystere de la mort.
  6. Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
  7. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
  8. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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