Quotes

"My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde I like talking to a brick wall - it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ~ The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ~ The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. ~ Old Christmas by Washington Irving