Quotes

Once in a long while I come across something written by someone else and feel like they wrote what's in my brain. Obviously whoever wrote what I'm reading can't be so normal. Case in point, Oscar Wilde. So many of the quotes attributed to him (some are quite dubious) speak to me as if I had written them myself. I thought I'd share some of my favorites with you (not all of them are things I think) , all in one post, so I don't have to annoy everyone by posting them one at a time on Facebook :-) Just a word of caution: for a guy who sounds so sure of himself, his life didn't exactly live up to his ideas and he died a miserable outcast. 

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” 

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” 

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” 

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

“I can resist anything except temptation.” 

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” 

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” 

“I am not young enough to know everything.” 

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” 

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” 

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” 

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” 

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” 

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” 

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” 

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” 

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being” 

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” 

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.” 

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.” 

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.” 

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.” 

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” 

“Only the shallow know themselves” 

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.” 

“Everything popular is wrong.”