oscar wilde zitate

meine liebsten zitate vom gott derselben:

* we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

* i have the simplest tastes. i am always satisfied with the best

* consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

* only the shallow know themselves

* to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

* seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow

* it is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating

* fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

* my own business always bores me to death; i prefer other people’s

* selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live

* one should always be in love. that is the reason one should never marry

* i can resist anything but temptation

* life is too important to be taken seriously

* there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up

* ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy

* the only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that i have always cultivated

* there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

last but not least: quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit (…)