Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. – Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. – Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. – Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde
He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. “I am,” he sighed deeply, “contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.” – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,