Quotes

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde

“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.” Paulo Coelho

“Only the shallow know themselves.” Oscar Wilde

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” Paulo Coelho

“We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.” Paulo Coelho

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” Paulo Coelho

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.” Oscar Wilde

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” Paulo Coelho

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” Paulo Coelho

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” Paulo Coelho

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” Oscar Wilde

“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” Oscar Wilde

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.” Oscar Wilde

“A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.” Oscar Wilde

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.” Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” Oscar Wilde

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” Oscar Wilde

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” Oscar Wilde

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde

“I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.” Oscar Wilde

“Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.” Antonio Gaudi