A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

-- Oscar Wilde

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I can resist everything except temptation.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-- Oscar Wilde

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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

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. –

-- Oscar Wilde

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. –

-- Oscar Wilde

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