Failure Quote by Leslie Langtry

“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

— Oscar Wilde

Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner

— Oscar Wilde

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

— Oscar Wilde

“All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.”

— David Levithan

“Oscar Wilde wrote, “In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it.”…

— Esther Perel

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

— Anonymous

“And I don’t recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications—but not nearly as many as marriage.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to…

— Simon Munnery

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith