Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrées”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...” — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Do not live by certain fixed rules, except those that relate to the cardinal virtues. Nor let your will subscribe fixed conditions, for you… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus that was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering day shows… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“but you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward till they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all the desirable… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most had the… — Cara Lynn James Copy Share Image
“The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“The small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.” — Ramona I Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
