"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark | Despair | 3 bookmarks

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

Wilde, Oscar | Literature | 1 bookmarks

"You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done."

Wilde, Oscar | Aristocracy | 1 bookmarks

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar | Love | 6 bookmarks

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar | Love | 1 bookmarks

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar | Love Ended | 6 bookmarks

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar | Loyalty | 7 bookmarks

"On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners."

Wilde, Oscar | Marriage | 2 bookmarks

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar | Marriage | 4 bookmarks

"Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable."

Wilde, Oscar | Marriage | 1 bookmarks