Zitat des Tages über Oscar Wilde:
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
I don't really have a social life.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
That is a long word: forever!
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
No man may make another free.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Peace is produced by war.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
