Quote #65
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that t…
- If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion…
- He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
- The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.