I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
– Oscar Wilde
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.
– Oscar Wilde
I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
– Oscar Wilde
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.
– Oscar Wilde
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
– A. J. Liebling
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
– Bertrand Russell
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
– Jerome K. Jerome
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
– George Bernard Shaw
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
– Oscar Wilde
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
– Rene Descartes
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
– Oscar Wilde
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
– Clarence Darrow
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
– Frank Zappa
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
– Anthony Burgess
It’s always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.
– Paul Newman
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
– Plato
Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
– William of Ockham
I can resist everything except temptation.
– Oscar Wilde