Oscar Wilde Quotes
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
Sally Hawkins
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
H. L. Mencken
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.
Fisher Ames
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'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.
Eleanor Catton
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
